The AASU members led a march from Chowkidinghee to the health services office, where they gheraoed for an hour, demanding that private nursing homes and diagnostic laboratories be regulated.

“The private nursing homes and diagnostic laboratories in Dibrugarh are involved in unethical practice by charging exorbitant rates while conducting medical tests in the name of treatment,” alleged AASU, Dibrugarh district president – Abani Kumar Gogoi.

He said, “The health department has failed miserably to control the unethical practice of the private nursing homes and laboratories. They are making money by looting the public. Despite that, the health service of Dibrugarh is doing nothing against them.”