Retrograde step: IMA on govt allowing post-grad Ayurveda docs to perform surgery
Demanding that the order be withdrawn, the IMA urged the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM), a statutory physique beneath the AYUSH Ministry, to develop their very own surgical disciplines from their very own historic texts and never declare the surgical disciplines of contemporary medication as their very own.
The notification by the CCIM listed 39 normal surgery procedures and round 19 procedures involving the attention, ear, nostril and throat by amending the Indian Medicine Central Council (Post Graduate Ayurveda Education) Regulations, 2016.
In a press release, the IMA mentioned, “Such a deviant practice is unbecoming of a statutory body. The IMA will have no objections for the council to develop their own dedicated disciplines without mixing modern medicine surgical disciplines.”
It additionally demanded that the federal government ought to chorus from posting any physician of contemporary medication within the faculties of Indian medication.
“The IMA sees this growth as a retrograde step of blending the methods which can be resisted in any respect prices. All over India college students and practitioners of contemporary medication are agitated over this violation of mutual id and respect.
“What is the sanctity of NEET if such lateral shortcuts are devised? IMA demands to withdraw the order and first delineate the Indian Medicine disciplines based on original Indian Medicine texts,” the medical doctors’ physique mentioned.
Meanwhile, AYUSH Ministry Secretary Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha mentioned the notification by the CCIM doesn’t quantity to any coverage deviation or any new determination.
“This notification is extra of the character of a clarification. It streamlines the present regulation relating to put up graduate schooling in Ayurveda with respect to the required procedures.
“Further, the notification does not open up the entire field of surgery to Ayurveda practitioners and specifies a set of surgical procedures. It outlines that not all post-graduates of Ayurveda can perform these procedures. Only those specialised in Shalya and Shalakya are allowed to perform these surgical procedures,” Kotecha mentioned.
Chairman of the Board of Governors, CCIM, Vaidya Jayant Devpujari clarified that these surgical procedures are being carried out in Ayurveda institutes for over 20 years and the notification legalises them.
“The purpose of bringing out the notification is also to set boundaries by specifying the list of procedures so that practitioners restrict themselves to the set of surgical procedures as mentioned in the regulation,” Devpujari mentioned.
According to the November 20 gazette notification the procedures listed embrace elimination of metallic and non-metallic international our bodies from non-vital organs, excision of easy cyst or benign tumours (lipoma, fibroma, schwanoma and so forth) of non-vital organs, amputation of gangrene, traumatic wound administration, international physique elimination from abdomen, squint surgery, cataract surgery and useful endoscopic sinus surgery.
