Raut backtracks on ‘compounders better than docs’

TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut reacts to a statement by the Indian Medical Association against his remarks to a TV channel. “I have not insulted doctors. The way they are serving is commendable. My remark was in reference to WHO, wherein I meant that the Covid-19 pandemic would not have taken place if WHO had worked efficiently.”

The Maharashtra chapter of the Indian Medical Association has taken a strong objection to the remarks made by MP Sanjay Raut in a TV interview against doctors. IMA (Maharashtra) in a statement said that in an interview aired on a Marathi news channel, Raut passed comments such as, Doctors do not know anything. Compounders are better, I always take medicine from a compounder, never from a Doctor. WHO is a useless organisation.

Raut is chief strategist of Maharashtra Chief Minister, Uddhav Thackeray and senior Shiv Sena leader. Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut reacts to a statement by the Indian Medical Association against his remarks to a TV channel. “I have not insulted doctors. The way they are serving is commendable. My remark was in reference to WHO, wherein I meant that the Covid-19 pandemic would not have taken place if WHO had worked efficiently.”