Many rural areas should not have basic physicians or paediatricians for miles collectively, so quacks, who are sometimes folks from the identical village with expertise of getting labored briefly in a hospital, are welcome, Dr Dabade says. “The government’s PHCs have doctors, but labourers are working during those hours and cannot forgo their wages. Sub-centres under PHCs are supposed to bring healthcare closer to people, but several of these centres do not have either staff or medicines.”