New Delhi: Doctors of several hospitals in Delhi, including AIIMS, supported the IMA's protest on Friday against the central government's decision to impart surgery training to postgraduate degree holder Ayurveda physicians.
The IMA had called upon the doctors providing
non-essential and non-Kovid services to protest against this decision
from 6 am to 6 pm on Friday. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) is
demanding that the decision be withdrawn.
Apart from AIIMS, doctors
of LNJP Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital, DDU Hospital,
GTB Hospital, BSA Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital and
Corporation-run Hindurao Hospital in New Delhi worked by tying black bands on the arms.
The Resident Doctors Association of AIIMS-Delhi said during a statement, "This step won't only promote the already rooted hatchet system, but it'll also endanger people's safety." We request the government to withdraw this notification immediately. '
"We stand with our medical fraternity during this regard and support the decision for a strike by the Indian Medical Association," the statement said.
Shivaji
Dev Varman, president of 'Forda', the apex body of various resident
doctors associations of Delhi, said that the doctors will tie the black
band and continue the work, protesting.
The IMA has stated that the
notification issued by the Central Pharmaceutical Council of India
(CCIM) to allow Ayurveda physicians to legally perform surgeries and to
allow the formation of four committees by the NITI Aayog for the
integration of all medical practices is' disorder 'Will increase.
According
to the news agency PTI, Dr. Kamlesh Saini, Secretary, IMA Gujarat
Branch, said, "30 thousand doctors from Gujarat participated during this protest, including nine thousand doctors from Ahmedabad."
Doctors
of private hospitals, nursing homes and diagnostic centers of Uttar
Pradesh also supported this strike. Government doctors, emergency
services and doctors engaged in the treatment of corona virus patients
remained out of the strike here.
President of IMA's Uttar Pradesh
unit, Dr. Ashok Rai said that 21,500 private hospitals, pathology,
diagnostic centers and private doctors of the state supported the
protest.
While stating the reasons for the strike, Dr. Rai said that
doctors of Ayurveda have been allowed to perform surgery after doing a
supportive course. Till now allopathic, Ayurveda, Unani and homeopathy
have their own distinct identity and mixing them (medical practices)
with 'mixopathy' will have serious consequences.
Earlier, the IMA
demonstrated nationwide on December 8 against the government
notification related to allowing general surgery to postgraduate degree
holder Ayurveda physicians.
Let us know that the Central Council of
Indian Medicine (CCIM) has given the right to post-graduate doctors of
certain areas of Ayurveda to perform surgery.
In this regard, the
CCIM, a statutory body governing Indian medical systems under the
Ministry of AYUSH, listed 39 general surgery procedures in a
notification issued on 20 November, of which 19 procedures are associated with the eyes, nose, ears and throat.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) is continuously opposing this. The organization had said that it's a confusing mix or 'slang' of medical education or practice. The IMA had demanded the withdrawal of the related notification.
The
IMA said in a statement that there is a long list of modern medical
surgeries, which have been listed in Ayurveda under the Surgical Tantra
and Shalakya Tantra, all of which come under the purview and
jurisdiction of modern medical practice.
Earlier on November 22, the IMA had condemned the move and termed it as a step backward to modern medical systems.
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