Doctors strike over Ayurveda surgery: India

The Indian Medical Association is angry at a decision allowing traditional healers to do procedures
Australian Associated Press
Ayurvedic massage items.

Doctors in many Indian hospitals have closed outpatient departments and worn black armbands to protest against a government decision to allow practitioners of traditional medicine to carry out minor surgical procedures. 

The country-wide strike was called by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), the top representative body for doctors.