Doctors of AIIMS, other hospitals join IMA call for protest with black ribbons

Many doctors at several hospitals in the national capital,including AIIMS ,on friday sported black ribbons in support of the protest call of the IMA against the centre’s move allowing post-graduate practitioners of Ayurveda to be trained in performing surgical procedures.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) which had given the nation wide call on December 1, has demanded withdrawal of the notification.The notification by the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) to allow legal practice of surgeries by Ayurveda practitioners and the formalities of four committees by NITI Aayog for integration of all systems of medicine will only lead to ‘mixopathy’,the IMA has said.