The Indian Medical Association does not represent entire medical fraternity though they represent a majority of MBBS practitioners. IMA sadly does not wholly represent specialists and superspecialists nor institutions or corporate health Before banning the pharma and industry sponsorship for CME and conferences the IMA should come out of local policy making and have a global outlook. More than 50 percent of the Global research are in collaboration with industry. When the business houses are imperative for the economic stablility of the nation. The same applies to health industries also.
Sponsorship to individual doctors can be cured in ethics. CONTRARY TO SHEDDING CROCODILE TEARS TO THESE ISSUES WHAT WE NEED IS TO ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING Firstly, we should be ashamed that our country as a nation does not have social security. Health security or Nation wide insurance. So are…
