Soni Satti
The Supreme Court has issued notice to centre on a plea filed by Indian Medical Association against the decision allowing Ayurveda postgraduates to perform modern surgery.
A divisional bench comprising CJI SA Bobde, Justice Bopanna, and Justice Ramasubramanianhas was hearing a PIL filed by Advocate Amarjeet Singh, wherein he challenged the Regulations framed by the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM).
The petition Challenged Clauses 10(8) and 10(9) of the 2016 Regulations of the Indian Medical Council (Post Graduate Ayurvedic Education), as amended by the 2020 Amendment, and submitted that,
The regulations are a serious prejudice to the rights of millions of medical doctors across the country who have toiled hard and spent years of their life undergoing training for attaining adequate exposure, experience, and qualifications for performing surgeries under the modern scientific system of medicine.
The impugned regulations have the potential, if not nipped at the bud, of causing serious risk to the safety and the treatment and management of patients who approach the Doctors for that purpose through the system of and field of Modern Medicine.” The plea reads.