IMA stir on Friday against surgery nod for Ayurveda docs
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bhopal: 09.12.2020
Indian Medical Association (IMA) Greater Bhopal Chapter held press conference opposing the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) decision to allow Ayurveda practitioners to perform surgeries, here on Tuesday. IMA has called for withdrawal of all non-essential non-Covid services between 6 am to 6 pm on Friday, December 11 to protest the move.
“We demand the withdrawal of a recently issued notification allowing incoming Ayurveda practitioners do general surgeries (like ophthalmology and dental procedures),” said IMA Greater Bhopal Chapter secretary and RKDF medical college associate professor, Dr Dr Sudeep Pathak.
IMA has earlier opposed gazette notification by union government that allows Ayurveda doctors to perform surgeries. As per decisions of 224 emergency CWC Meeting of IMA held on November 29, the doctors association has deemed the order as ‘predatory poaching on modern medicine’.
Some doctors at the press conference linked the measure to quackery, allowing other traditional medicines (Ayurveda) to practice allopathy. IMA greater Bhopal is opposed to the gazette notification in which Ayurveda doctors are being prepared and authorised to perform 58 different kind of surgeries including general surgery orthopaedics, ophthalmology, ENT and dental procedures and surgeries.
During the one day stir, emergency services including casualty, labour rooms, emergency surgeries will not be affected, IMA clarified. Inpatient services including ICUs, critical care and others will function as normal.
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