The friction between doctors of
Ayurveda and Modern Medicine over training of Ayurveda doctors in modern
medicine has escalated with the Ayurveda doctors approaching the High Court
against keeping in abeyance the government's earlier order of allowing them to
undergo training in modern medicine at government hospitals.
Even as the Ayurveda practitioners
claim that the training was only meant to impart a comprehensive knowledge
about the whole health system, the Indian Medical Association (IMA), which is
all out against it, said that such an exercise will not do any good for the
people. The Ayurveda doctors under the aegis of Ayurveda Medical Association of
India (AMAI) on Saturday filed a petition before the High Court on Saturday.
Lashing out against IMA, Anand
alleged that all these protest were only part of industrialisation of the
health sector and the protest is only from a section of doctors who see health
as a business. The same sentiment was shared by Private Ayurveda Medical
Practitioners Association (PAMPA), which said that the BAMS students had all
the right to get training as per the syllabus. PAMPA
Meanwhile IMA state president Dr Sreejith N Kumar said
that they had approached the government against the order pointing out that it
violated the spirit of the Medical Council of India guidelines. ''The MCI,
which is the highest authority of Modern Medicine, has in 2007 itself given
strict directive that modern medicine people can only be trained in modern
medicine institutions. And if this was violated, strict action could be
taken,'' he said.
Source: The New Indian express
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