Private Hospital doctors stage 24-Hour protest over Homeopath-Allopath Row - Video

Several doctors from private hospitals, clinics and nursing homes across the city have staged a protest against the Maharashtra Medical Council's (MMC) decision to grant registration to homoeopathic practitioners who have completed the bridge course-Certificate Course in Modern Pharmacology (CCMP), allowing them to practice allopathy.

As part of the protest, private healthcare facilities are shut for 24 hours today. While outpatient departments (OPDs) are closed, emergency, maternity, ICU and ambulance services will continue as usual.

Extending support to the protesting doctors, the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (Central MARD) has formally joined the protest. The association leaders have stated that a statewide agitation will be held if the government fails to withdraw the notification.

Medical Dialogues recently reported that the Maharashtra Senior Resident Doctors Association (MSRDA) strongly opposed the Maharashtra Medical Council's decision and urged the council to immediately withdraw the notification. They asserted that such a move is "medically indefensible, ethically unacceptable, and legally questionable." They argued that the move is an affront to thousands of allopathic doctors who have dedicated over a decade of their lives to intense, evidence-based medical training, from MBBS to post-graduation and beyond.