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NEW DELHI: Medical doctors across India went on strike on Friday to protest against the government’s decision to allow traditional healers to perform general surgical procedures.
The Central Council of Indian Medicine in late November authorized postgraduate practitioners of specified streams of Ayurveda, the ancient Hindu practice of health, to be trained to perform procedures such as excisions of benign tumors, amputation of gangrene and nasal and cataract surgery.
“We unequivocally condemn the uncivil ways of the Central Council of Indian Medicine to arrogate itself to vivisect modern medicine and empower its practitioners with undeserving areas of practice,” the Indian Medical Association (IMA) said in a statement on Friday.