IMA Calls For Strike Against Ayurvedic Surgery

The IMA on Tuesday gave a call to all doctors practicing fashionable drugs to withdraw non-crucial and non-Covid services on December 11 in protest in opposition to a Central Council of Indian Medicine notification which authorizes put up-graduate practitioners in specified streams of Ayurveda to be educated to carry out normal surgical procedures.

Emergency services will perform together with ICUs and CCUs however no elective surgical case will likely be posted, the doctors’ physique mentioned. Asserting that the notification by the Central Council of Indian Medicine to allow the authorized apply of surgical procedures by Ayurveda practitioners and the formation of 4 committees by Niti Aayog for the organization of all methods of drugs will solely result in “mixopathy”, the IMA demanded a direct withdrawal of each.