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Info Ayurveda, Volume 2, No.1, July to September’ 2012
News Update
Allahabad HC directs state CMOs, DMs
to take action on ISM doctors practising
In a significant order, the Allahabad High Court last week
directed the Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) and the District
Magistrates (DMs) to initiate prosecution against those ISM
practitioners who administer modern medicine to their patients
by prescribing drugs and carrying out surgeries in their nursing
homes.
The Court also ordered to conduct raids in such nursing homes
and prohibit those persons from practising modern system of
medicine. The judgement said besides initiating prosecution, an
FIR should be lodged and those clinics/nursing homes should
be sealed. There were reports in the media that large number
of unauthorized, unqualified and unregistered persons and
physicians in homoeopathy, Unani, Ayurveda and Siddha are
practising modern system in several places in the state.
In the judgement it is noted that there was allegation that the
quacks were practising modern medicine in connivance with the
chief medical officers and their staff.
In his judgement on the contempt application filed by one Rajesh
Kumar Srivastava, Justice Sunil Ambwani also directed the chief
secretary and the principal health secretary to comply with the
earlier orders passed by the Court prohibiting those persons,
who are unqualified and unregistered, from practising modern
medicine. The court reminded the state’s chief bureaucrats of its
earlier orders and directed them to submit a compliance report in
the court by July 13, 2012.
modern medicine Peethaambaran Kunnathoor, Chennai
Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 08:00 Hrs [IST]
In February 2010, in a similar case, the High Court of Madras in
an order restrained the ISM practitioners from practising allopathic
system. Passing the order, Justice K K Sasidharan had held that
police could take action against those who practise modern system
without qualification. Following this order, the state police had
started widespread crack down on ISM practitioners for practising
allopathy.
Desperate over the police action the traditional physicians approached
the High Court and on July 30, Justice FM Ibrahim Kalifulla ruled that
the registered practitioners in Siddha, Ayurveda, Homoeopathy and
Unani were eligible to practice surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology,
anaesthesiology, ENT, ophthalmology, etc. and said penal action
against such practitioners should be dropped immediately. The court
took note of section 17 (3) B of the Indian Medicine Central Council
Act, 1970 to issue the order.
After the order came out, the state government wrote to the state
police that the institutionally qualified and registered practitioners of
Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani could practise their respective systems
with modern scientific medicines including surgery, gynaecology &
obstetrics, anaesthesiology, ENT, ophthalmology, etc. based on their
training and teaching in the course. This was based on section 17 (3)
B of the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970.
Later the Tamil Nadu branch of the Indian Medical Association
(IMA) appealed against the verdict before the High Court and the
case is still pending with the court.
Courtesy: PHARMABIZ.com
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