AHMEDABAD: A 42-year-old woman homeopath practising in Jamalpur attempted to commit suicide, after a patient alleged she had suffered severe allergy from her medicine, and the patient’s husband threatened kill her if anything happened to his wife.
Shabana Rollwala, resident of Khurshid Flats in Jamalpur, said that she has been practising homeopathy for a decade in the Jamalpura area.
A patient named Mumtaz Mirzajiwala had visited her clinic on June 17 with a complaint of stomachache and taken a dose of homeopathic medicine.On June 18, the patient again came to her clinic with a complaint that she had got some skin allergy after taking the dose.
Rollwala said that she gave her another dose to cure the allergy and sent her back.
On June 19, Mumtaz with her husband Mehboob and her daughter barged into Rollwala’s clinic and began arguing aggressively, states the FIR.
Rollwala alleged that Mehboob began abusing her in front of other patients and her compounder and also threatened to kill her if something happened to his wife.Hurt with Mehboob’s comments Rollwalla decided to commit suicide.
She went to her house and overdosed on sleeping pills on June 19 night.
When her condition deteriorated, her husband took her to a private hospital in the Navrangpura area, where she remained unconscious for around four days.
On June 22, she regained consciousness and filed a complaint of uttering of abusive words and criminal intimidation along with charges under Gujarat Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage or Loss of Property) Act, 2012 against the accused.
Ahd: Woman homeopath attempts suicide in Jamalpur
