NEW DELHI: The Supreme Courtroom on Monday sought responses of the Union authorities and Central Council of Indian Medication on a PIL difficult legal guidelines allowing practitioners of ayurveda, yoga and naturopathy, unani, sidda and homoeopathy to prescribe allopathic medicines and conduct surgical procedures, saying it could encourage quackery and endanger lives.
Showing for Affiliation of Medical Consultants, advocate Sunil Fernandes advised a bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia that the 2 legislations — Nationwide Fee for Indian System of Medication Act, 2020 and Nationwide Fee for Homoeopathy Act, 2020 — would permit non-scientific, unproven strategies of drugs to be utilized to most people at massive.
Fernandes mentioned although the intent behind the 2 legislations was laudable as they wished to beat the scarcity of docs by merging different and fashionable medication, these would fail to verify malpractices by ‘quacks’ with out qualification or expertise. “The enactments, as a substitute, legitimise the apply of quackery and pseudo-science,”he mentioned.
Showing for Affiliation of Medical Consultants, advocate Sunil Fernandes advised a bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia that the 2 legislations — Nationwide Fee for Indian System of Medication Act, 2020 and Nationwide Fee for Homoeopathy Act, 2020 — would permit non-scientific, unproven strategies of drugs to be utilized to most people at massive.
Fernandes mentioned although the intent behind the 2 legislations was laudable as they wished to beat the scarcity of docs by merging different and fashionable medication, these would fail to verify malpractices by ‘quacks’ with out qualification or expertise. “The enactments, as a substitute, legitimise the apply of quackery and pseudo-science,”he mentioned.
