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MUMBAI/NAGPUR: Indian Medical Association (IMA) has called for closure of nonemergency medical services nationwide on Friday to protest against a government notification allowing post-graduate ayurveda students to perform 58 surgeries from allopathy. The body said clinics, dispensaries and OPDs will be shut from 6am to 6pm.
Around 110,000 doctors registered with Maharashtra Medical Council, including 45,000 from IMA are likely to participate. The association said emergency services will continue. “Covid hospitals, ICUs, accident & trauma services, maternity homes and neonatal ICUs will work,” IMA stated.
A notification on November 20 by Central Council of Indian Medicine, which regulates ayurveda education, stated ayurveda graduates with postgraduate education will be trained in 58 surgeries from modern medicine. “The notification should be withdrawn. Instead of mixing branches of medicine, the government should promote resear