IMA proclaims petition motion towards govt’s transfer permitting ayurveda docs to carry out surgical procedure

New Delhi: The IMA on Sunday introduced a mass petition motion from February 15-March 31 towards a Central Council of Indian Drugs notification that authorises post-graduate practitioners in specified streams of ayurveda to carry out normal surgical procedures.

The docs’ physique additionally stated that this notification will result in “mixopathy” and demanded its speedy withdrawal.

The Indian Medical Affiliation (IMA) had held a pan-India relay starvation strike from February 1-14 on the problem.

The “impractical, unscientific and unethical notification” needs to be instantly withdrawn, it stated in a press release, including that apart from the petition motion, it should additionally unfold consciousness among the many individuals on the notification.

The IMA additionally stated that it’ll submit a listing of 1,000 fashionable drugs docs prepared to serve in distant areas of the nation to counter the “false” declare of lack of docs.

“All IMA members, all specialty organisations, all fashionable drugs college students, all girls docs throughout the nation will educate individuals about this retrograde and unscientific mixing of various methods of healthcare. All fashionable drugs hospitals will promote the significance of scientific moral surgical experience,” the docs’ physique stated.

The IMA additionally proclaims non-cooperation motion “henceforth through which fashionable medicines surgeons and anesthesiologists shall not cooperate with AYUSH individuals coaching and performing surgical procedure”, it stated.

The docs’ physique has been opposing the notification by Central Council of Indian Drugs, a statutory physique below the Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy).

The notification authorises post-graduate practitioners in specified streams of Ayurveda to be educated to carry out surgical procedures akin to excisions of benign tumours, amputation of gangrene, nasal and cataract surgical procedures.

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