AYURVEDIC doctors trained as surgeons in Ayurvedic colleges have been allowed by the government to perform 58 types of surgeries to make up for the lack of surgeons in India.
The decision has led to an outcry by allopathic doctors with the Indian Medical Association (IMA) saying it will lead to ‘mixology’ and quackery, which the public healthcare system could do without.
The fact is that surgery began in India with Sushruta whose treatises form the basis of Ayurveda. Present-day Ayurvedic doctors also study surgery at the master’s level in Ayurvedic colleges. But does that make them good. . .