MARGAO
Members of Indian Medical Association (IMA) staged a protest here on Sunday by organising a cycle rally against the Union government’s decision to allow Ayurvedic practitioners to perform medical surgeries.
The doctors criticised the proposal to integrate all systems of medicine such as AYUSH and modern medicine, which is termed as ‘mixopathy’.
They demanded that the government withdraw the notification that could allow Ayurveda graduates to perform 58 kinds of surgeries.
IMA Margao president Babita Angle said, “We are not being disrespectful or-anti any stream of medicine but do not mix modern medicine which is a very robust scientific stream of medicine with other alternative streams of medical practice”.
She said the notification by central government to allow Ayurvedic doctors to perform surgeries is a regressive step and we demand that this notification be withdrawn. “We as members of IMA stand together for standard of care to all”, she added.
