Charging that the allopathic medical professionals in India were using the "wrong symbol", a PIL litigant today moved the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Medical Council of India to use the right symbol--"Rod of Asclepius".
Justice V.Ramasubramanian and Justice N. Kirubakaran ordered issue of notice to the officials including Health Secretaries of Tamil Nadu and government of India and chairmen of MCI and Tamil Nadu Medical Council.
The petitioner submitted the medical councils were using the symbol of Greek God Caduceus--a staff entwined by two serpents with wings atop.
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God Caduceus was associated with Kundalini Yoga Or Gnostic corpus Hermticcum and commerce.
The father of modern medicine Hippocrates worshipped the greed God Asclepius whose symbol is "Rod of asclepius," the petitioner argued.
"Most physicians in the United States mistakenly thought that the symbol of their profession was that of Caduceus. Then they changed the symbol and started using the symbol of Asclepius...Which is a rod entwined by a single snake and no wings.
Even the American Medical Association was using only the Rod of Asclepius as their symbol, he said adding that using a symbol erroneously will have a bad effect on the society at large.
"The prominent example of wrong usage of symbol was use of Swastik symbol by Nazi leader Hitler.The Swastic was the symbol of peace and harmony but it was used wrongly by Adolf Hitler and Nazi forces who resorted to genocide," he said. PTI SSN.
