Imphal, February 3 (NNN): Joining the nationwide protest called by the Indian Medical Association, Manipur on Wednesday staged a hunger strike in Imphal.
Doctors across the country under the aegis of the IMA are on pan-India relay hunger strike since February 1, in protest against a notification issued by the Central Council of Indian Medicine that authorised post-graduate practitioners in specified streams of Ayurveda to perform general surgical procedures. IMA observed that it will lead to “mixopathy” and called members across the country to launch the “Save healthcare India movement.”
Stating that conflict among the health professionals would arise as the methods of treatment of these three streams are different, IMA Manipur branch president Dr L Shyamkumar said, “Such mixopathy will destroy the purity of the systems which believe differently and practice differently.”
The IMA state branch president demanded withdrawal of the CCIM notification and dissolution of the NITI Aayog committee for integration.
