Can't allow integrated training: Indian Medical Association

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has strongly condemned the attempt to give a 'backdoor entry' for those from other streams of healthcare to get trained in modern medicine. IMA office-bearers have met health minister V S Sivakumar and health secretary K Ellangovan to register their protest and demanded immediate withdrawal of the order.

The state had decided to give ayurveda and homoeo graduates training in modern medicine in the health service department hospitals. The director of health service had informed the government that practitioners of modern medicine would be against the decision.

It is dangerous to allow people inside the labour rooms or operation theatres in the name of training, added Dr A V Jayakrishnan, secretary, IMA.

It is a violation of the Medical Council of India norms and Supreme Court directive, said state president of KGMOA Dr E P Mohanan.