Vijayawada: Doctors stage stir over nod to Ayurvedic practioners to perform ops
Indian Medical Association members staging a protest opposing NMC Bill in Vijayawada on Tuesday
Vijayawada: The members of Indian Medical Association (IMA) here on Tuesday announced that they would continue the agitation against the decision of the Ayush department of the Central Government allowing the Ayurvedic doctors to conduct surgeries. They demanded immediate withdrawal of the decision on mixopathy.
The IMA members staged a protest on the premises of the Indian Medical Association office here on Tuesday.
President of the Vijayawada branch of the IMA PV Madhusudana Sarma and general secretary Dr Tummala Karthik, led the protest.
The physicians holding placards raised slogans against the government's decision allowing the Ayurvedic doctors to conduct surgeries. The doctors said that they were not against any recognised system of medicine prescribing medicines under their own respective systems.
They said that they were also against the National Medical Commission bill in which the community health provider has been vaguely defined that will allow people without enough medical background to practice medicine. IMA former national president Dr G Samaram said that the decision of the Central government was meaningless. It was an insult to the doctors who studied for more than half a decade to master the surgeries. He deplored that the health of the common man would be in danger and demanded immediate withdrawal of the order.
Dr Subhash Chandra Bose, Dr M Ravindranath, Dr Srikanth, Dr Abdul Rehman, Dr Usman, Dr Ramana Murthy, Dr Vellanki Sridevi, Dr Singari Prabhakar and others also participated.