Mumbai: The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) on Tuesday announced an indefinite statewide strike starting midnight of August 5 over the government’s proposal to grant Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) registration to homoeopathy practitioners. The Indian Medical Association (IMA), BMC MARD, Maharashtra State Resident Doctors Association (MSRDA), Association of State Medical Interns (ASMI), Maharashtra Association of Gazetted Medical Officers’ Group-A (MAGMO), and Maharashtra State Medical Teachers Association (MSMTA) extended their full support to the statewide indefinite agitation called by Central MARD. The Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) issued a notification on June 30 permitting homoeopaths to prescribe modern medicines after completing a six-month certificate course in Modern Pharmacology (CCMP). It had also asked the state government to address the long-pending issues of resident doctors across state of Maharashtra. “The Central MARD reiterates that this agitation is not against any system of medicine or its practitioners.