IMA opposes any proposal on teaching Ayurveda to MBBS students
New Delhi, Feb 7: The IMA on Tuesday opposed Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij's reported proposal of teaching MBBS students Ayurveda, terming it as 'mixopathy" which will backfire and put the nation's health care delivery system into total peril.
Mixing of systems will also ring the death knell of Ayurveda, it said.
"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.
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, the IMA said.
"Resultantly, the said statement of the Minister is unconstitutional, unfortunate, and unwarranted," the IMA said.
It said IMA regards Ayurveda as our ancient medicine and would prefer to preserve its tenets and traditions in its purest form.
"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," it states.
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Karnataka: Woman delivers baby on train after emergency halt in Dakshina Kannada
Mangaluru (Karnataka) (PTI): A woman travelling from Mangaluru to Mysuru delivered a baby on board a train after it was halted at a station in Dakshina Kannada district, officials said on Monday.
According to railway sources, the passenger began experiencing labour pain during the journey on Sunday. The train was stopped at B C Road station in Bantwal taluk of this district to facilitate medical assistance. However, no doctor reached the spot for over 30 minutes after the halt.
In the absence of immediate medical support, two co-passengers stepped in to assist the woman. The delivery was conducted in the train's toilet compartment. Both the mother and the newborn were reported to be safe following the delivery, they said.
Railway police officials had arranged for the woman to be shifted to a medical facility. She was admitted to the Government Lady Goschen Hospital in Mangaluru for postnatal care.
According to the OBG (Obstetrics and Gynecology) department officials at the hospital, the child and mother will be discharged after the initial observation period is over.
They told PTI that the delivery was done in trying conditions. The two ladies who carried out the operation had done a good job. The child and mother arrived at the facility 22 kilometers from the spot. Also, the mother experienced no blood loss or any other complications.
The neonate has been incubated and the mother is undergoing normal observational procedure at the hospital, the hospital officials said.
Officials said the woman is a resident of Mysuru and had been travelling home at the time of the incident.
