Medical body begins hunger strike over surgery permission to Ayurveda doctors

The Indian Medical Association has said that its members and modern medicine doctors have started a relay hunger strike from Monday at over 50 places across the country in protest against a notification by the Central Council of Indian Medicine CCIM authorising postgraduate practitioners of Ayurveda to perform general surgical proceduresThe Indian Medical Association IMA said the new procedure will lead to mixopathyIMA national president secretary general and other IMA leaders will visit various places across the country to enhance the public safety movement the doctors body said in a statementThe relay strike will continue till February 14 it saidIt said the women doctors will lead the nationwide hunger strike on February 7The IMA condemns the notification by the CCIM a statutory body under the AYUSH Ministry authorising postgraduate practitioners in specified streams of Ayurveda to be trained to perform surgical procedures such as excisions of benign tumours amputation of gangrene nasal and cataract surgeries the statement saidIMA demands immediate withdrawal of the said impractical unscientific and unethical notification it addedAll specialty associations across the country have joined the strike through Federation of Medical Associations under the aegis of IMA The Dental Association also has joined this national movement the statement saidThe IMA will launch a massive awareness drive across the country as there is a clear threat to the safety of healthcare of people it saidThe IMA also said it will release awareness posters and banners across the countryAll IMA members shall update their Members of Parliament and MLAs regarding the true picture of the notification and integration policy the statement saidThe IMA will also give its rationale representations to all state governments Under the Save People Movement all NGOs will be updated with the core issues it addedInternationally the IMA shall apprise various associations from different countries about this unscientific notification the statement said The global voice of modern medicine shall echo the feelings of the Indian Medical Association and its all members it addedThe IMA asked its Medical Students Network MSN Junior Doctors Network JDN IMA Womens Wing IMA Hospital Board inservice doctors medical colleges to participate in the strike it saidFurther the recent policy tilt as evidenced in the medical pluralism advocated by the National Education Policy 2020 and the four committees of NITI Aayog for officially integrating the systems of medicine in medical education practice public health and administration as well as research ostensibly for a One Nation One System policy will ring the death knell of all systems of medicine as a whole the statement saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever