A letter from Gujarat health department calling a a meeting of officials and regulators to discuss “the practice of allopathy by those who have studied Ayurveda” has not gone down well with the Gujarat State Branch of the Indian Medical Association (IMA-GSB), which has stated in a letter that allowing “this dangerous trend” could lead to medical emergencies and “jeopardize the public’s trust in the medical system.” The IMA-GSB members have also taken exception to not being invited to the meeting scheduled for January 3 in Gandhinagar. This comes two days after the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) in Maharashtra permitted prescription of Allopathic medicines by Homeopaths who have completed a course in modern pharmacology. On Monday, the IMA-GSB wrote to Gujarat Health Commissioner Harshad Kumar R Patel, drawing attention to what it called the “critical issue of unauthorised practice of modern medicine by non-allopathic practitioners and quacks.” The IMA-GSB letter stated several instances of individuals providing Allopathic treatments without a medical education in modern medicine had surfaced and that “this trend posed a serious …