Emergency services and COVID-19 treatments were not affected The day-long strike by allopathy doctors on Friday affected healthcare services across Mysuru on Friday with the private medical practitioners joining the Indian Medical Association (IMA) in protesting against the Centre’s move allowing the Ayurveda doctors to perform surgeries just like the practitioners of modern medicine. The striking doctors claimed that all non-essential healthcare services were hit barring the emergency cases and COVID-19 treatments. Despite the IMA’s claim, the strike did not elicit support from government doctors or medical officers, who functioned as usual. By and large, all major and minor private health clinics remained shut and doctors of most private hospitals bycotted non-essential services in support of the concerns expressed by the modern medicine practitioners on the decision taken to integrate different forms of medicine with the allopathy system.