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more-inThe arrest of ‘naturopathy’ practitioner Jacob Vadakkanchery, on the charge of impeding the Health Department's efforts to contain leptospirosis outbreak after the recent floods, continues to be embroiled in controversy. However, modern medicine practitioners, such as B.
Ekbal, former Professor, neurosurgery, and K.P. Aravindan, former professor, pathology, among others, claimed that Mr.
Vadakkanchery was not a crusader against the commercialisation and exploitation of the medical establishment. They claimed that the vaccination rates dropped in some of the northern districts where his anti-immunisation campaign was at its height. Civil rights activists and academics such as Aruna Roy, Medha Patkar, Binayak Sen and T.T..