Anaesthesiologists endorse IMA stir
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Move to allow Ayurveda postgraduates to perform surgeries
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Move to allow Ayurveda postgraduates to perform surgeries
Kozhikode Doctors practising modern medicine are stepping up their opposition to the Central Council of Indian Medicine Regulations amendment allowing Ayurveda postgraduates to perform surgeries. Anaesthesiologists, who have a major role to play in surgical procedures, have endorsed the ongoing protests by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) against what they called ‘mixopathy’ or blending of different branches of medicine.
E.K. Mohamed Abdul Nazar, Kerala chapter president of the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA), told
The Hindu on Saturday that any doctor applying anaesthetic drugs before surgery needs to have a clear understanding of the existing medical conditions of the patient and the treatment being given. “It is dangerous for any anaesthesiologist, who may not know anyt