The IMA on Sunday announced a mass petition movement from February 15-March 31 against a Central Council of Indian Medicine notification that authorises post-graduate practitioners in specified streams of ayurveda to perform general surgical procedures.
The doctors' body also said that this notification will lead to "mixopathy" and demanded its immediate withdrawal.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) had held a pan-India relay hunger strike from February 1-14 on the issue.
