{"id":254108,"date":"2025-07-10T18:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254108\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:07:17","slug":"homeopaths-to-give-allopathy-medicines-ima-strike-tomorrow-mumbai-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254108\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeopaths to give allopathy medicines: IMA strike tomorrow | Mumbai News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/122349124.jpg\" alt=\"Homeopaths to give allopathy medicines: IMA strike tomorrow\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Mumbai: The state-level Indian Medical Association (IMA) has called for a 24-hour strike of doctors on Friday if Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) does not reverse its decision allowing homeopaths with a short-term pharmacology certificate to register as modern medicine practitioners. This would be applicable for all medical services except life-threatening emergencies.There are about 91,000 registered homeopaths in the state, of whom over 9,000 completed a one-year certificate course in modern pharmacology (CCMP). The medical community expressed concerns that this will severely impact people&#8217;s health. Dr Jayesh Lele, former general secretary of IMA, said, &#8220;Mixing two different fields will only create half-baked medicine prescribers.&#8221;In a letter to CM Devendra Fadnavis, the association said MMC&#8217;s notification undermines the integrity of modern medical practice. &#8220;The short-term course cannot be equated with the rigorous, long-duration MBBS education and clinical training,&#8221; it said.Maharashtra State Resident Doctors&#8217; Association also raised concerns, warning that the decision could worsen quackery. &#8220;Overdose, drug interactions, wrong prescriptions, even minor errors, can result in irreversible harm or death,&#8221; it said in a separate letter to MMC officials.An official said as the move resulted from a 2014 amendment to Maharashtra Homoeopathic Practitioners Act and MMC Act, 1965, it is only govt or courts that can now revoke it. A decision on the amendment is still pending before court, but at a meeting helmed by medical education minister Hasan Mushrif earlier this year, MMC was directed to pass the notification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mumbai: The state-level Indian Medical Association (IMA) has called for a 24-hour strike of doctors on Friday if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[96645,105,4354,37395,97709,96900,4326,50557,41045,50558,50559,50560,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-254108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-allopathy","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-homeopathy","11":"tag-indian-medical-association","12":"tag-maharashtra-homoeopathic-practitioners-act","13":"tag-maharashtra-medical-council","14":"tag-medication","15":"tag-mumbai-latest-news","16":"tag-mumbai-news","17":"tag-mumbai-news-live","18":"tag-mumbai-news-today","19":"tag-today-news-mumbai","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114830275332360055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}