Government supports AYUSH practitioners as legal Medical Termination of Pregnancy ?

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AYUSH doctors may soon have legal status as MTP Providers, if the government recommended an amendment to the 1971 MTP Act Bill is approved by the parliament. This news has definitely not gone well with the modern medicine practitioners, who believe that any traditional medicine practitioners should not be allowed to conduct any modern medicine procedures. In a recent turn of events, the health ministry has suggested an amendment in the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 1971 and recommended addition of medical practitioners with bachelor’s degree in Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha or Homeopathy that are working in the public sector with intention to increase the availability of safe and legal abortion services. The health ministry has proposed this amendment in an effort to increase the number of legal MTP providers and to ensure safe abortion services for women especially in rural areas where there is no modern medicine practitioner easily available. The exact conditions and criteria for place of delivery service, training, gestation limit, and technology used would be clarified and defined in the rules following the approval of the MTP amendment Bill by the Parliament. The national medical bodies like IMA and Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI) have shown their strong objection to this inclusion of traditional medicine practitioners to provide legal abortion services. These associations have opposed to allowing traditional medicine practitioners to prescribe and perform modern medicine procedures. Time will tell if there is any amendment in the MTP Act, and if AYUSH practitioners will be legal MTP providers. 

Source: The Economic Times

AYUSH doctors may soon have legal status as MTP Providers, if the government recommended an amendment to the 1971 MTP Act Bill is approved by the parliament. This news has definitely not gone well with the modern medicine practitioners, who believe that any traditional medicine practitioners should not be allowed to conduct any modern medicine procedures. In a recent turn of events, the health ministry has suggested an amendment in the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 1971 and recommended addition of medical practitioners with bachelor’s degree in Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha or Homeopathy that are working in the public sector with intention to increase the availability of safe and legal abortion services. The health ministry has proposed this amendment in an effort to increase the number of legal MTP providers and to ensure safe abortion services for women especially in rural areas where there is no modern medicine practitioner easily available. The exact conditions and criteria for place of delivery service, training, gestation limit, and technology used would be clarified and defined in the rules following the approval of the MTP amendment Bill by the Parliament. The national medical bodies like IMA and Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI) have shown their strong objection to this inclusion of traditional medicine practitioners to provide legal abortion services. These associations have opposed to allowing traditional medicine practitioners to prescribe and perform modern medicine procedures. Time will tell if there is any amendment in the MTP Act, and if AYUSH practitioners will be legal MTP providers. Source: The Economic Times

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