The Maharashtra authorities has put a short lived keep on the sooner order of the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC), allowing homoeopathy practitioners to practice modern medicine. The keep got here after the Indian Medical Affiliation (IMA) met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday (July 10, 2025). 

After the assembly, a notification was issued on Friday (July 11, 2025), mentioning {that a} committee shall be set as much as examine and make suggestions on the matter to the federal government inside two months. 

“The Maharashtra Medical Council is hereby directed to right away cease the method of registration of homoeopathy practitioners initiated by the Maharashtra Medical Council till additional motion is taken on the report of the mentioned committee,” said the Maharashtra authorities within the notification. 

“We confirmed Mr. Fadnavis the selections of the Courtroom listening to on the matter up to now. He additionally agrees that this matter is in contempt of Courtroom and orders the committee,” mentioned Santosh Kadam, IMA State President, including we welcome this step as that is about affected person security and public belief.

 IMA decided to hold a 24-hour strike on Friday (July 11, 2025), followed by a rally in Mumbai on July 14. Nonetheless, it was halted after assurances from CM Devendra Fadnavis. The Maharashtra Senior Resident Docs Affiliation (MSRDA) members additionally met Opposition chief Ambadas Danve, asking to lift the difficulty within the ongoing Maharashtra Meeting monsoon session. 

IMA, MSRDA, and Maharashtra Affiliation of Resident Docs (MARD) opposed the MMC’s choice to register the homoeopathic docs having Certificates Course in Fashionable Pharmacology (CCMP) to prescribe allopathic medicines. Within the letter submitted to the federal government on July 8, IMA mentioned, “If homoeopathic medical practitioners are allowed to follow in fashionable drugs, it might pose a risk to the well being of the folks and the lives of the sufferers.”

 A number of hospitals related to MARD, together with Nair Hospital, resident docs held a silent protest on eleventh July 2025 in opposition to the current choice by the MMC. “As a mark of protest, docs wore black ribbons on their left arms whereas persevering with their duties within the OPD, wards, and operation theatres,” NAIR Mard president Dr. Digvijay Jadhav mentioned within the assertion.