IMA opposes inclusion of Ayurveda studies in MBBS course
After Haryana health minister Anil Vij recently said that the state is planning to include a year of mandatory ayurveda studies for students pursuing the five-year MBBS, Indian Medical Association (IMA) has opposed it and said it is mixopathy which will bring out compromised doctors, read here to know more.
Indian Medical Association (IMA) has opposed the Haryana government's plan to include a year of mandatory ayurveda studies in the MBBS curriculum. The Haryana health minister Anil Vij recently revealed the state government's plan.
IMA has opposed it and said that any such mixopathy will bring out compromised doctors and it will also ring the death knell of Ayurveda.
"IMA opposes mixopathy in all its forms. Hybridisation of medical education to bring out compromised doctors will backfire on the nation and put its health care delivery system into total peril," it said, as reported by Economic Times.
IMA added, "The regulation of medical education is governed through the Parliamentary enactment titled 'National Medical Commission Act, 2019' as of now upon repealing of Indian Medical Council Act, 1956. As such, no state government is in any manner entitled to meddle with the medical education of the country on its own as education including medical education is not a subject included in the 'State List' in the seventh schedule appended to the Constitution of India."
IMA has termed Anil Vij's statement unconstitutional, unfortunate and unwarranted.
"China is the only country which practises integrative medicine. China is certainly not our model in healthcare. "Due to integration CTM (Chinese traditional medicine) has been decimated and is no longer practised in its pure form. Safeguarding the purity and legacy of Ayurveda will enrich our traditional medicine. Mixing of systems will ring the death knell of Ayurveda," added IMA.
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