A letter from Gujarat well being division calling a a gathering of officers and regulators to debate “the apply of allopathy by those that have studied Ayurveda” has not gone down properly with the Gujarat State Department of the Indian Medical Affiliation (IMA-GSB), which has acknowledged in a letter that permitting “this harmful pattern” might result in medical emergencies and “jeopardize the general public’s belief within the medical system.”
The IMA-GSB members have additionally taken exception to not being invited to the assembly scheduled for January 3 in Gandhinagar. This comes two days after the Meals and Medicine Administration (FDA) in Maharashtra permitted prescription of Allopathic medicines by Homeopaths who’ve accomplished a course in fashionable pharmacology.
On Monday, the IMA-GSB wrote to Gujarat Well being Commissioner Harshad Kumar R Patel, drawing consideration to what it referred to as the “important concern of unauthorised apply of recent drugs by non-allopathic practitioners and quacks.”
The IMA-GSB letter acknowledged a number of cases of people offering Allopathic therapies with no medical schooling in fashionable drugs had surfaced and that “this pattern posed a critical risk to the well being of the folks, resulting in harmful and generally life-threatening penalties for unsuspecting sufferers.”
The scheduled assembly, to be held beneath the aegis of Dhananjay Dwivedi, the Principal Secretary of Well being, got here on account of a illustration by one Kamlesh C Rajgor, who runs a non-public hospital in Ahmedabad.
The well being division has sought attendance from Commissioner of Well being, MD of Nationwide Well being Mission , Extra Director of Medical Companies, Extra Director of Medical Schooling and Analysis, President of the Gujarat Medical Council, President of the Gujarat Board of Ayurvedic and Unani System of Medication (GBAU), President of the Council of Homeopathy System of Medication, and Dr Rajgor, who runs Yogeshwar Multispeciality Hospital.
The agenda of the assembly, the letter states, is to debate “whether or not those that have change into medical doctors within the research of Ayurveda can research Allopathy if the necessity arises.” When contacted, Dr Rajgor declined to touch upon the contents of his illustration.
Dr Sanjay Prabhudas Jivrajani, the president of the GBAU, mentioned: “The time period ‘quackery’ is sadly extrapolated to incorporate Homeopathy and Ayurvedic practitioners. We need to assist right this narrative. We additionally need to make it possible for if medical doctors beneath our Board are crossing any limits, they have to study to stay inside their mandate.” On IMA’s letter, Dr Jivrajani mentioned that each one methods of drugs are “three pillars of the Indian well being system and should work collectively.”
In the meantime, the letter from IMA-GSB acknowledged, “Sufferers threat struggling extreme problems, everlasting disabilities, and even demise as a result of misdiagnosis, improper therapies…Permitting this harmful pattern to persist might overwhelm healthcare amenities with preventable emergencies, and jeopardize public belief within the medical system.”
It urged the Gujarat authorities to develop an motion plan to forestall this.
Dr Mehul Shah, President of the IMA-GSB and member of the Gujarat Medical Council (GMC), mentioned, “The purpose we’re stressing on is that folks ought to practise solely in these fields of drugs through which they’re educated. There can’t be a bypass or shortcut in any skilled apply.”
Alternatively, defending the medical practitioners in Ayurveda and Unani methods, Dr Jivrajani mentioned, “In all 32 of our medical faculties, we now have pharmacology within the syllabus. Our medical doctors are posted to PHCs and CHCs and in ambulances…Our practitioners are posted within the farthest villages. We’ve got the rarest variety of complaints in our council and there hasn’t been a single medico-legal case thus far.”
The Indian Specific tried to achieve out to Harshadkumar Patel, the Commissioner of Well being, however he remained unavailable for remark.
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