New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- : A day after Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) amended the Indian Medicine Central Council Regulations, 2016, to introduce formal training and practice of surgeries to the postgraduate students of ayurveda, Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Saturday suggested it to develop its own "surgical disciplines" from its own ancient texts.
The IMA also demanded the withdrawal of the order and delineation of the Indian medicine disciplines based on original Indian texts.
"IMA exhorts the council to develop their own surgical disciplines from their own ancient texts and not claim the surgical disciplines of modern medicine as its own. Such a deviant practice is unbecoming of a statutory body. The IMA will have no o...