Doctors strike over Ayurveda surgery: India
The Indian Medical Association is angry at a decision allowing traditional healers to do procedures
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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.