IMA seeks withdrawal of CCIM amendment
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Many non-public hospitals closed their outpatient companies and noticed a bandh in solidarity with the decision given by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to protest the notification on amendment to the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) Act, within the metropolis on Friday.
Meanwhile, authorities docs and PG and undergraduate medical college students, owing allegiance to the Indian Medical Association (IMA), AP Government Doctors’ Association (APGDA), staged a protest in entrance of the executive block of King George Hospital (KGH) to precise their resentment on the choice of the Centre to combine totally different methods of drugs and permit practitioners of Ayurveda to conduct surgical procedures.
The members, carrying banners and placards, raised slogans denouncing the transfer.
Mahatma Gandhi Cancer Hospital, Subham Prema Hospital, ANITS NRI Hospital, Sudha Dental Hospital and Padmavathi Nursing Home have been among the many non-public hospitals which closed their OP companies and held protests in response to the decision given by IMA.
IMA State president Dr. N. Subrahmanyam, State CWC Member Dr. Vijayasekhar and Visakhapatnam department president Dr. P.A. Ramani mentioned that the current change in coverage and the medical pluralism advocated by the National Education Policy, 2020, and the 4 committees of NITI Aayog for formally integrating the totally different methods of drugs in medical training, follow, public well being and analysis would spell the doom of trendy drugs.
The notification of the amendment to the CCIM Act permits Ayurveda practitioners to do 58 sorts of surgical procedures, together with varied stomach operations and varied ENT and eye operations. The IMA questioned as to how Ayurvedic practitioners can carry out surgical procedures within the absence of anaesthesia and antibiotics in Ayurveda.
Meanwhile, the AP Medical and Sales Representatives Union (APMSRU) prolonged complete assist to the agitation of the docs. APMSRU district president K.K. Choudhary and State secretary Chandramouli deplored the transfer of the federal government and demanded withdrawal of the proposal.