Trademark for Allopathic Doctors Registered By IMA

At the present stage, the administration is hoping to unite diverse institutes of allopathy medicine, ayurveda, and homeopathy and implement initiatives to engage homeopathic specialists to recommend allopathic medications. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) is removing itself to keep a particular picture by enlisting a trademark for all allopathy professionals.

The IMA, which has more than 40,000 individuals only in Maharashtra, got its trademark enlisted under the Trade Marks Act, 1999. The move isn’t limited only to the members but rather all allopathic specialists to use on their letterheads to separate themselves from specialists honing different types of drug or those working without enrollment. “It has been implemented for enabling patients who will choose which specialist they need the treatment of. The sign might be utilized only by allopathic specialists. Since “Dr” isn’t patented, it can be utilized by anybody,” said IMA part Dr. Shivkumar Utture.

The IMA is spreading the awareness of the trademark, a red cross with Dr positioned at the middle, among patients and the medical group. As indicated by IMA Maharashtra president Dr. Jayesh Lele, anybody, aside from an allopathic specialist, who is identified utilizing the letterhead or prescription, can be arraigned under the Trade Marks Act.

“Till date, we used to whine to police, in the case, if we notice a non-allopathic specialist recommending allopathy drugs. However, there is generally no action taken against the offender. But now at least we can sue such specialists on the off chance that they utilize our trademark to delude patients,” Lele said. As per Dr K Agrawal, IMA national president, the logo will be an answer for issues like misrepresentation and to identify that the doctor belongs to allopathy.

The move, on the other hand, may not run down well with every single allopathic specialist who doesn’t wish to utilize the trademark or aren’t part of the IMA. Maharashtra has more than 75,000 enrolled allopathic doctors of whom, more than 40,000 are associated with. Since utilizing the trademark is not compulsory and just a reference, all specialists may not utilize it making uncertainty amid patients. “We’re not halting non-members of IMA from utilizing it. We will come to know whether this affects decreasing cross-pathy in a couple of months,” Lele said.

This will roll out by the IMA will probably help to identify the fake doctors as well who by chance had their academics in the medical field but complete degree.