Members of the local chapter of the IMA hold a meeting in Amritsar on Friday. Photo: Sunil Kumar
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, December 11
On a call given by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), local doctors observed a strike against the Centre’s decision to allow postgraduate Ayurvedic doctors to perform surgeries here on Friday.
Members of the local chapter of the IMA held a meeting to flay the Central Government’s notification and sought its withdrawal. A complete shutdown of OPD and non-emergency services was observed by doctors in view of the strike call given by central IMA.
Dr KS Arora of the local chapter of the IMA said: “We are against the government’s decision.” Calling the move regressive, he said it would have far-reaching effects and disastrous implications for the nation’s healthcare system and would destroy all the progress made in the field of medicine.
Dr OP Singhania said, “This will ruin the nine billion US dollar medical tourism industry in the country, which is growing by eight per cent every year. It will strike at the very roots of progress made in the modern medical system. The very healthcare edifice built after decades of hard work will crumble like a house of cards,” he remarked.
Dr JS Grover, Dr Sukhjit Singh and other members of the IMA, said, “Therefore, we request the Central Government to withdraw the notification at the earliest and save the modern system of medicine. Instead of taking it back to medieval ages and play havoc with the health of the common man.”
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