Paramparya Vaidyas are debarred from practicing modern/homoeopathic/ayurvedic/siddha/unani-tibbi medicines unless registered under Travancore-Cochin Medical Practitioners Act, 1953

The Supreme Court of India today reiterated that Paramparya Vaidyas cannot practice any type of medicine unless they registered with the State as per the provisions of Travancore-Cochin Medical Practitioners Act, 1953. The Appeal filed by Kerala Ayurveda Paramparya Vaidya Forum (in short ‘the Forum’) claimed certain privileges for Paramparya Vaidyas, which has been rejected by the High Court and the Supreme Court has also upheld the findings of the High Court. The Supreme Court has concluded that “Every practitioner shall be deemed to be a practitioner registered under the Act if at the commencement of this Act, his name stands entered in the appropriate register maintained under the said Act and every certificate of registration issued to every such practitioner shall be deemed to be a certificate of registration issued under this Act”

It further observed that “The scarcity of qualified medical practitioner was previously quite large since there were very few institutions imparting teaching and training to Doctors, Vaidyas, Hakims etc. The position has now changed and there are quite a good number of medical colleges imparting education in various streams of medicine. No doubt, now there are a good numbers of such institutions training qualified medical practitioners at number of places. The persons having no recognized and approved qualifications, having little knowledge about the indigenous medicines, are becoming medical practitioners and playing with the lives of thousands and millions of people.Some time such quacks commit blunders and precious lives are lost. The government had been vigilant all along to stop such quackery. A number of unqualified, untrained quacks are posing a great risk to the entire society and playing with the lives of people without having the requisite training and education in the science from approved institutions. The Travancore-Cochin Medical Practitioners Act, 1953 as well as the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970 were also enacted on the similar lines”

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