India, Aug. 6 -- Even as doctors continued their strike against the government's proposed policy to allow homoeopaths to practise allopathy, state medical education minister Hasan Mushrif on Wednesday announced that his department had sent a file to the chief minister to stay their registration under the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) until a committee headed by Anil Bhandari, commissioner (medical education and Ayush), finalises the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).

"The law to allow homoeopaths to practise allopathy was passed when Jitendra Awhad was medical education minister," said Mushrif. "The Indian Medical Association (IMA) had gone to court against this but there was no stay. The high court needs to decide on the case."

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