Resident doctors striking over the registration of homeopathy practitioners. But it was only the latest in a series of disputes that have kept Maharashtra’s healthcare sector on edge. Now, the bridge-course row has triggered fresh protestsThe latest confrontation centres on the Maharashtra government’s decision to operationalise a provision of the Maharashtra Homoeopathic Practitioners and Maharashtra Medical Council (Amendment) Act, 2014. It also provides for maintaining a separate register for such practitioners under the Maharashtra Medical Council. They say thousands of BHMS practitioners completed the government-approved course years ago and have been waiting for registration ever since.