IMA condemns surgery sanction for Ayurveda

The Indian Medical Association has condemned the Central Council of Indian Medicine’s notification giving legal authorisation to post-graduate doctors of Ayurveda in two specific disciplines to perform dental procedures and surgeries in general surgery, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, and ENT, after formal training.

In a statement here, IMA said that it will resist this ‘retrograde step of mixing the systems’ at all costs and demanded that the order be withdrawn . It said that ‘corrupting modern medicine by mixing with other systems and poaching the disciplines of modern medicine through the back door’ was ‘foul play of the first order.’

IMA demanded that the National Medical Commission, which has the responsibility to protect the ‘purity’of modern medicine, assert itself .