MCI and its right

RE: [Quality_of_Medical_Education] Re: Six months pharmacy course for AYUSH! ! ! ! !

Dear All
I do not understand why an ayurvedic practioner should be allowed to to prescribe medicines
from allopathic pharmacopia.Let them enroll in MBBS if they want to do it.


With warm regards

Yours sincerely

DR ANUP DHIR
Senior Consultant Apollo Hospital
Secretary Indian Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
101 ANSAL TOWER
38 NEHRU PLACE
NEW DELHI 110019 INDIA

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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:17:29 +0530
Subject: Re: [Quality_of_Medical_Education] Re: Six months pharmacy course for AYUSH! ! ! ! !



Dear Dr Sushama Anil

I would request you to kindly broaden your vision. Some points to consider are

1. MCI was established to regulate the colleges that were dishing out degrees in "MODERN MEDICINE" . It defines Medicine as ""medicine" means modern scientific medicine in all its branches and includes surgery and obstetrics, but does not include veterinary medicine and surgery;". The Supreme court in the case referred below, observed that Allopathy was referred to "Modern" only in terms of age and NOT in terms of superiority.

The MCI was not established to monitor or regulate AYUSH streams of medicine. So it has no scope to talk about AYUSH. And it stating that only Allopathy medicine should be allowed to be practiced would be the attitude of a big bully and can be challenged for monopoly tactics. Fortunately it has not claimed so, but everyone assumes it to be so.

2. The Government DOES recognize these streams of medicine. Please do visit the link http://india.gov.in/sectors/health_family/ayush.php and understand that efforts are being made to develop them.

3. Please dont trivialize this issue by saying that a six month pharmacology course can be taught to panchayats and they can work in lieu of doctors. I would also request you to go through the curriculum of the AYUSH courses before you equate them with psychologists, physiotherapists and of course Panchayats.

4. Your attitude and response does acquaint me with the way Gallileo felt when he claimed Earth was round and circled the Sun....he was punished for it. This happened 500 yrs back and if you know the Indian history, Aryabhatta 2500 yrs ago had proved the same thing. India in history was known for its scientific awareness and Ayurved was also a product of that era. It is just that we indians somehow allowed foreign influence to brainwash ourselves to forget this and accept the western ideology.

Regards

Maj(Dr) Ashwin Devanahalli