Nagaland doctors to withdraw all non-essential services from 6 am-6 pm tomorrow; find out why

KOHIMA: The Nagaland Branch of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has directed all MBBS doctors in government service, as well as private practitioners in the state to withdraw all non-essential non-COVID services, from 6:00 am to 6: 00 pm tomorrow. This will be held as a mark of protest against the Government of India’s decision to allow Ayurveda practitioners to perform various surgical procedures involving the eye, ear, nose, throat, and dental procedures like extractions, fillings, and root canal treatment.

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“This is the struggle against mixopathy and quackery entering in to the modern medicine,” the IMA's Nagaland Chapter said in a press release on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the Office of the Indian Dental Association Nagaland State Branch (IDANSB) also requested all the dental professionals (both in government service and private practitioners) to show solidarity and join the protest by withdrawing all non-essential non-COVID services.

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"The protest is against the Government of India’s decision to allow Ayurveda practitioners to perform various surgical procedures involving the eye, ear, nose, throat and dental procedures like extractions, filling and root canal treatment," the IDANSB said in a statement.

“Government must understand and consider the sensitivity of the modern medicine and dental profession and take appropriate steps. Integration of all systems of medicine will only lead to ‘mixopathy,’ confusion and complications,” it stated.

The Indian Dental Association plans to continue and intensify the agitation until the steps towards implementing the ‘mixopathy’ are abandoned, the statement added.

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