IMA calls for a nationwide strike on Dec 11

The Indian Medical Association has called for a strike on Friday, December 11,protesting against the new announcement that Ayush ministry will decide upon the course for MBBS.

As per an announcement issued Thursday, non Emergency Services of all clinics, dispensaries, OPDs will remain closed from 6 am to 6 pm on Friday. All Emergency services will be functioning.

Background of the Movement

In a notification published in the Gazette of the Government of India on November
20, by Central Council of Indian Medicine, the body that regulates Ayurveda
education, it was declared that Ayurveda graduates with BAMS in their
postgraduate education will be given training in 58 surgeries from modern
medicine. The Indian Medical Association has strongly opposed this at national
level.

Reasons of IMA’s Opposition

1. Giving Sanskrit names to these surgeries in this statement is misleading and not
   factual.
2. CCIM has included these surgeries in Ayurveda syllabus without taking
   permission of the National Medical Commission, which regulates the branch of
   modern medicine.
3. After this post graduate course in Ayurveda, the student will be awarded MS
   (Master of Surgery) degree in Modern Medicine. This will mislead the general
   public and patients.
4. Most of these 58 surgeries are performed by these super specialist surgeons. For
   which he pursues his studies and experience for almost 8 years of actual experience
   from the first year of MBBS and even after that he keeps on updating. Since these
   subjects are not taught in BAMS curriculum of Ayurveda, it would be disastrous,
   for the patients, if these surgeries are performed with half hazard knowledge.
5. After this Ayurvedic course, the same Ayurvedic student can perform surgery on
   teeth, eyes, nose-ear-throat, stomach, intestines, gallbladder and kidney. Today,
   these surgeries are performed by highly experienced doctors who are educated with
   every detail. So giving such permission to Ayurvedic students would be like
   gambling with the lives of patients.
   6.IMA is not against Ayurveda, our contention is, by such mixing of different
   pathies will be detrimental to the patients as well as Ayurveda will not grow.
6. In last few years Govt is time and again declaring to develop Ayurveda
   and other Indian Systems of Medicine, but instead of developing their ORIGINAL
   Science, Govt. is doing Copy Paste activity of implementing Modern Medicine
   Science Techniques into these Ancient Branches of Medicine and developing
   MIXOPATHY
   Our Demands
7. The Notification of CCIM should be withdrawn.
8. The 4 Committees of NMC should be dissolved immediately, which are formed for
   such MIXOPATHY.
9. Instead of Mixing the different branches of Medicine and creating a superficial
   MIXOPATHY, the Government of India should promote research in each pathies in
   order to develop them and making them more useful and effective for the Indian
   Citizens.