New Delhi, June 16 -- : The government should 'concentrate its activities on preventive medicine' and punish unlawful behaviour of anybody who harms doctors, the Indian Medical Association said on Wednesday.

In a letter, Dr Vinayak Buvaji, president of the IMA said that the government needs to increase the share of the GDP devoted to betterment of the country's health systems and take help from think tanks for this.

"In India, the cause of violence against doctors is multi-layered. The government needs to increase the GDP with existing outburst of the Indian population towards betterment of health system after discussing with the think tanks," Buvaji said.

He further said with modern medicine progressing by leaps and bounds, the country...