GURUGRAM: To demand withdrawal of the Centre’s notification allowing post-graduate practitioners of Ayurvedato be trained in surgical procedures, several doctors at private hospitals and clinics, who are associated with the Gurugram chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), will participate in an 11-day protest from February 4. While they plan to shut down OPDs from February 8 to 14, emergency services, such as casualty, labour rooms and intensive care units, will be exempt from the strike .
The doctors will conduct a relay hunger strike on February 4 and organise a candle march the next evening from Pushpanjali Hospital to the deputy commissioner’s residence, where they will hand over a memorandum to him.
The notification of the Central Council for Indian Medicine allowing Ayurvedic doctors to perform 58 surgeries will cut the entire medical system into pieces, doctors said. “No surgery is possible without anaesthesia, ICU care and infection control, which they need to borrow from modern medicine,” Dr M P Jain, president, IMA, Gurugram chapter.
“Ill-trained Ayurvedic surgeons could make the situation worse, with more complications and mortalities,” said Dr Rajesh Kataria, secretary, IMA (Gurugram).
On December 8, about 1,000 doctors associated with Gurugram IMA had carried out a protest in 25 hospitals, including Medanta ,Artemis , Columbia Asia
and Paras. The IMA had in November asked its members and the medical fraternity not to teach disciplines of modern medicine to students of other systems.
