Harjot Kaur Dhillon ( Intern journalist)-New Delhi, The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has announced a decisive battle against the government’s notification to allow general surgery to postgraduate degree holder Ayurveda physicians. The IMA on Thursday announced a pan-India hunger strike from February 1 in protest against the notification issued by the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM).
The notification issued by the Central Council of Indian Medicine (Central Council of Indian Medicine, CCIM) has asked to allow Ayurveda physicians with postgraduate degrees to perform general surgery. Indian Medical Association, ie IMA, says that such an order issued by the government will give birth to mixopathy. The statement issued by the IMA said that it is issuing instructions across the country to launch the Healthcare India Bachao Andolan.
The IMA says that under this campaign, it will conduct a massive awareness campaign across the country as the said order poses a major threat to the health security of the people. The statement also said that its member doctors will sit on hunger strike for the entire week 24 hours from February 1. The IMA will also release posters and banners for this movement. Not only this, but its members will also make MPs and MLAs aware of the issue of the said notification.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has been organizing sit-in demonstrations on this issue in the past. On December 8, under the banner of the IMA, doctors performed nationwide. IMA members say the move will spread chaos. IM’s National President Ranjan Sharma and other officials of the organization had demanded the government to withdraw the said decision. Not only this, on December 11, thousands of private doctors in Uttar Pradesh had stopped their work.
It is worth mentioning that 58 operations have been approved by the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) under the procedure of Masters Ayurveda Surgery. Last month, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) had also approached the Supreme Court to protest against the permission of the Central Government to train general practitioners of Ayurveda. The IMA said in its petition that the council did not have the authority to include it in the curriculum of modern medicine.
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