{"id":73622,"date":"2025-09-19T15:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73622\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:35:14","slug":"doctors-to-hold-one-day-strike-to-oppose-registration-of-homoeopathy-practitioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73622\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors to hold one-day strike to oppose registration of homoeopathy practitioners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published on: Sept 18, 2025 03:50 am IST <\/p>\n<p>    The move would compromise the quality of healthcare and put patients at risk, reads a statement released by IMA     <\/p>\n<p>Around two lakh allopathy doctors across Maharashtra, including 10,000 from Pune, will shut down medical services for 24 hours starting 8am on September 18 in response to a strike called by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) Maharashtra state and supported by Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) and hospital associations, said officials on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mumbai--India--Sep-01--2025--A-Team-of-Doctors-tre_1758133213083.jpg\" alt=\"IMA doctors warned that allowing CCMP-trained practitioners to prescribe modern medicines could lead to misdiagnosis, antibiotic resistance, and even patient deaths, especially in rural areas. (REPRESENTATIVE PIC)\" title=\"IMA doctors warned that allowing CCMP-trained practitioners to prescribe modern medicines could lead to misdiagnosis, antibiotic resistance, and even patient deaths, especially in rural areas. (REPRESENTATIVE PIC)\"\/>   IMA doctors warned that allowing CCMP-trained practitioners to prescribe modern medicines could lead to misdiagnosis, antibiotic resistance, and even patient deaths, especially in rural areas. (REPRESENTATIVE PIC)    <\/p>\n<p>The protest is against the state government\u2019s directive to the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) to register homoeopathic doctors who have completed the one-year Certificate Course in Modern Pharmacology (CCMP). The move would compromise the quality of healthcare and put patients at risk, reads a statement released by IMA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe MBBS course is 5.5 years long, covering 19 subjects, hospital training, and a full-year internship. In contrast, CCMP is just a one-year, part-time course. Such training is not enough for modern medicine,\u201d said Dr Sunil Ingale, president, IMA Pune.<\/p>\n<p>IMA doctors warned that allowing CCMP-trained practitioners to prescribe modern medicines could lead to misdiagnosis, antibiotic resistance, and even patient deaths, especially in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sanjay Patil, spokesperson, IMA, said, \u201cInternationally, MBBS is the only accepted standard. If Maharashtra dilutes this, our state\u2019s medical reputation will suffer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doctors highlighted that both the National Medical Commission (NMC) and MMC guidelines permit licences for MBBS or equivalent degree holders only.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/story_trending@2x.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\" class=\"breadcrumbclick\" data-vars-event-label=\"Home_clicked\" data-vars-event-action=\"\/\" data-vars-event-cta=\"News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\" class=\"breadcrumbclick\" data-vars-event-label=\"Cities_clicked\" data-vars-event-action=\"\/cities\" data-vars-event-cta=\"Cities\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cities<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/pune-news\" class=\"breadcrumbclick\" data-vars-event-label=\"Pune_clicked\" data-vars-event-action=\"\/cities\/pune-news\" data-vars-event-cta=\"Pune\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pune<\/a> \/ Doctors to hold one-day strike to oppose registration of homoeopathy practitioners   <\/p>\n<p> See Less <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on: Sept 18, 2025 03:50 am IST The move would compromise the quality of healthcare and put&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[50420,45382,18,135,50421,19,2327,17,42550,462],"class_list":{"0":"post-73622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-allopathy-doctors","9":"tag-certificate-course-in-modern-pharmacology","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-healthcare-quality","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-indian-medical-association","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-maharashtra-medical-council","17":"tag-medication"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}