MUMBAI: Maharashtra state government officials said the cabinet nod for a bridge course between homoeopathy and allopathy was prompted by shortage of doctors in rural areas. They said allopathy doctors often abstained from mandatory rural service.
"Even in urban areas such as Mumbai, homeopaths are appointed as housemen in most hospitals. We are just ensuring that their education is better,'' said an official.
The one-year bridge course—named Certificate Course in Modern Pharmacology—will be conducted by the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik. In 1999, the then government had decided to allow the switch and following the advice of the state legal department, amended the Maharashtra Medical Council Rules and Regulations Act 1965. But the decision remained in cold storage after the change in government. In the late-90s, the Dr Ganeriwal Committee and solicitor general R M Kadam had approved the decision but with a pre-condition that the homoeopaths should undergo standard certification of the health university.
Thursday's decision follows the recommendation of the 13-member committee set up in 2012. The committee, led by director of Ayurveda Dr Kohali and a vice-chancellor of the state university of health sciences, asked the government to start the bridge course first and then amend the Act so to allow homoeopaths to start practice.
The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors said it was opposed to the government's decision. "We will soon move the high court demanding a stay,'' said MARD Central president Santosh Wakchaure.
Dr Jayesh Lele, secretary of IMA-Maharashtra, said the Bombay high court recently ruled in the IMA's favour in a petition filed by homeopathy doctors. "The court in a different case ruled a doctor with an MD (post-graduate) in medicine can't prescribe medicines for heart attacks unless he does a two-year course in cardiology. How can this one-year bridge course the work?'' he said.
Maharashtra Medical Council president Dr Kishor Taori said, "It is a retrograde step. Leading homeopaths have gone on record saying such a move would kill their science.'' Source : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
"Even in urban areas such as Mumbai, homeopaths are appointed as housemen in most hospitals. We are just ensuring that their education is better,'' said an official.
The one-year bridge course—named Certificate Course in Modern Pharmacology—will be conducted by the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik. In 1999, the then government had decided to allow the switch and following the advice of the state legal department, amended the Maharashtra Medical Council Rules and Regulations Act 1965. But the decision remained in cold storage after the change in government. In the late-90s, the Dr Ganeriwal Committee and solicitor general R M Kadam had approved the decision but with a pre-condition that the homoeopaths should undergo standard certification of the health university.
Thursday's decision follows the recommendation of the 13-member committee set up in 2012. The committee, led by director of Ayurveda Dr Kohali and a vice-chancellor of the state university of health sciences, asked the government to start the bridge course first and then amend the Act so to allow homoeopaths to start practice.
The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors said it was opposed to the government's decision. "We will soon move the high court demanding a stay,'' said MARD Central president Santosh Wakchaure.
Dr Jayesh Lele, secretary of IMA-Maharashtra, said the Bombay high court recently ruled in the IMA's favour in a petition filed by homeopathy doctors. "The court in a different case ruled a doctor with an MD (post-graduate) in medicine can't prescribe medicines for heart attacks unless he does a two-year course in cardiology. How can this one-year bridge course the work?'' he said.
Maharashtra Medical Council president Dr Kishor Taori said, "It is a retrograde step. Leading homeopaths have gone on record saying such a move would kill their science.'' Source : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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