IMA seeks withdrawal of CCIM amendment Updated: Updated: ‘How can Ayurveda practitioners conduct surgeries without anaesthesia?’ Share Article AAA Doctors, owing allegiance to the IMA, staging a protest demanding withdrawal of the proposal to amend the CCIM Act, in front of KGH in Visakhapatnam on Friday. | Photo Credit: K.R. DEEPAK ‘How can Ayurveda practitioners conduct surgeries without anaesthesia?’ Many private hospitals closed their outpatient services and observed a bandh in solidarity with the call given by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to protest the notification on amendment to the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) Act, in the city on Friday.