Indian Medical Association may go to court over govt’s non-MBBS doctor move
MUMBAI: Unhappy with the government’s announcement to allow other practitioners to legally prescribe allopathic drugs in Maharashtra, the Indian Medical Association(IMA) is planning to move court.
On Friday the government had announced that ayurveda, homeopathy and unani practitioners would soon be able to legally prescribe allopathic medicines in Maharashtra provided they completed a one-year course in pharmacology.
The allopathic doctors are unhappy with this decision. IMA state secretary Jayesh Lele said it takes an MBBS doctor five years to learn pharmacology. “Three years are given only to practise it. How can one learn pharmacology from a text-book in one year and be allowed to prescribe allopathic medicines?” he asked, adding it will be like playing with the patient’s life.
Homeopathic, ayurvedic and unani doctors had gone on a day’s strike earlier this week. Dr Bahubali Shah, president of Homeopathic association, Maharashtra, said that during an emergency, it becomes difficult for general practitioners or rural doctors to prescribe emergency medicines. “For some emergency problems like fever, vomiting, or dehydration, allopathic drugs work faster. It becomes a problem if non-allopathic doctors cannot prescribe them even in times of emergency,” he said.
The IMA said its legal cell will soon decide on a date to move court.
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Indian-Medical-Association-may-go-to-court-over-govts-non-MBBS-doctor-move/articleshow/14924572.cms
this is not a good move by IMA as all the subjects of MBBS & BHMS are same throughout the course except pharmacology.so i think that govt of maharashta is on a right path.
IMA move is laudable, and I do endorse it, we homoeopath also had reacted the same in 1980,s against the move of teaching Homoeopathy -MF by Royal Homoeopathic London to the MBBS student