As per Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM), a new gazette has been passed that states that the post-graduate scholars of Ayurveda to formally practice general surgery, including ortho and dentistry saying that it saw this move as a “retrograde step” of mixing the systems which, it said, will be resisted at all costs.
But the Indian Medical Association (IMA) called for a nationwide protest against this amalgamation of allopathy and ayurmedic medicine on 11th of December, taking an action against the Centre’s move. As a part of the protest, the IMA closed all Outpatient Departments (OPDs) and Non-emergency services in all Government and private hospitals across the country from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Various medical college PG students, associations and residential doctors join hands along with the hospitals in favour of this protest.
Dr Archana Kothari, President Of IMA, Nagpur branch said about the protest, “We are not against the Ayurvedic doctors but the mixing of Ayurvedic and allopathic medicine can be detrimental to the society. Let the treatment of a disease be purely in the modern technique or it has to be purely ayurvedic, an amalgamation process can be harmful for the patients”.
“We are fighting for the betterment of the society, and in case if our protest is not paid much heed, from the side of the Centre, we will put forward the matter to the Supreme Court,†added Dr. Kothari.
