As per the latest reports, students and doctors at the Government Nizamia Tibbi College and Hospital went on an indefinite hunger strike on Monday to protest the new government’s decision to eliminate Unani, Homeopathy, and Naturopathy as valid medical disciplines in AYUSH.
The protesters have stated that they will not stop until the government retracts the most recent notification issued on September 16th, which eliminated Unani, Homeopathy, and Naturopathy medicines while keeping and promoting Ayurveda.
According to the government order, candidates who studied Unani, Homoeopathy, or Yoga are ineligible to apply for the positions of Mid-Level Health Professionals (MLHP). It also stated that current MLHPs with the same qualifications should be relieved of duty when their term expires.
Students are continuing their hunger strike until Tuesday, alleging that the move is being made to promote Ayurveda while simultaneously undermining other alternative disciplines. Many practitioners of traditional disciplines, according to medical practitioners and students, will lose their jobs as a result of this.
“We have come here fairly through competitive exams,” Hajra Fatima, a final year Unani student at Government Nizamia Tibbi College, stated. We wrote NEET to come here, but we are now being sidelined,” Fatima added.
“We are protesting against the National Health Ministry’s scheme,” said Dr. Zubair Alam, a house surgeon (NHM). He went on to say that until now, ‘AYUSH’ and ‘Allopathy’ were given equal importance, and students were recruited equally, but this year, those who study Unani, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, etc are being labeled ‘ineligible’ in AYUSH, and those who work in these fields are being removed from their work
Canceling other forms of alternative medicine and retaining only Ayurveda under ‘AYUSH’ is nothing more than discrimination, Dr. Zubair said.
Students at GNTC wrote a letter to Hyderabad MP and AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday, which he subsequently forwarded to the Union government.
Dr. Prashanti, the Telangana commissioner of AYUSH, went to visit the GNTC campus on Friday and told students that the matter is not in the hands of the state government.
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