HRD and health resolve impasse
October 1, 2011
By TEENA THACKER
Correspondent
New Delhi
The turf war between the Union health ministry and the human resource development (HRD) ministry over the proposed over-arching regulators seems to have ended with both the ministries now gearing up to go to the Cabinet with their respective bills soon.
Sources in the health ministry disclosed that the issues have been resolved after a series of deliberations with the HRD and law ministry, and they are ready to go to the Cabinet next week. The law ministry has vetted both the draft bills.
Earlier September, the Union health ministry had objected the proposed HRD bill, the National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER), saying that the “spirit behind the agreement had not been reflected” in it.
“The issues have now been sorted out. We were earlier miffed as some clauses of the HRD’s bill tend to‘over-ride’ provisions our NCHRH. The draft seems to be alright now and both of us have decided to go to the cabinet now,” sources added.
The fight between both the HRD and health ministry started after the former announced taking over medical education in their proposed bill. The Union health ministry strongly objected to it and approached the Cabinet for the clearance of their proposed National Commission for Human Resources for Health (NCHRH) Bill, 2011, after the HRD did not send its comments even after waiting for long. The health ministry after getting their final draft from the law ministry decided to go to the Cabinet for approval.
The draft NCHRH, however, never saw the light of the day. With the issues resolved between both the ministries, sources say that they are hopeful of getting clearance from the Cabinet soon.
The NCHRH aims to merge existing regulatory bodies such as the Medical Council of India, Dental Council of India, Pharmacy Council of India, Nursing Council of India and councils under the department of AYUSH into a single body.
The health ministry proposed to set up NCHRH as an “overarching regulatory body” for the health sector to reform the current regulatory framework and enhance the supply of skilled personnel.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Dept of Ayush releases guidelines
Dept of Ayush releases guidelines for conservation & development of medicinal plants
Suja Nair Shirodkar, Mumbai
Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 08:00 Hrs [IST]
Department of Ayush has released a set of operational guidelines for the central sector scheme for the conservation, development and sustainable management of medicinal plants. The aim behind releasing this guidelines was to promote availability of quality plant based raw material for both Ayush and folk systems in the country.
The guideline mentions that the medicinal plants form a major resource base of India's indigenous health care traditions. Statistics indicate that more than 90 per cent of the species used in trade continue to be sourced from wild of which about third are harvested by destructive means.
The note says, “Re-emergence of interest in herbal plant based healthcare globally, on one hand and unsustainable collection from the wild without adequate efforts at conservation and sustainable harvest, on the other hand are resulting in a large number of species coming under serious threat of extinction leading to use of substitutes and adulterants thereby affecting the efficacy and safety of the Ayush and herbal products.”
Through this scheme the government will be ensuring sustained supply of quality medicinal plants through programmes of in-situ conservation, survey and documentation, ex situ conservation of endangered and threatened species of medicinal plants, R&D, training and awareness and promotional activities like creation of home and school herbal etc.
The scheme also seeks to support programmes for quality assurance and standardisation through development of Good Agriculture and Collection Practices (GACP); development of monographs laying down standards of quality, safety and efficacy; development of agro-techniques and a credible institutional mechanism for certification of quality of raw drugs, seeds and planting material.
Department of Ayush aims to promote sustainable harvesting protocols of medicinal plants from forest areas and certification thereof and establish gene banks or seed orchards to create an authentic source of seed and germplasm for future.
The Department is hopeful that by implementing this scheme they will be able to able to develop protocols for cultivation and quality control which will help and encourage the protection of patent rights and IPR.
Suja Nair Shirodkar, Mumbai
Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 08:00 Hrs [IST]
Department of Ayush has released a set of operational guidelines for the central sector scheme for the conservation, development and sustainable management of medicinal plants. The aim behind releasing this guidelines was to promote availability of quality plant based raw material for both Ayush and folk systems in the country.
The guideline mentions that the medicinal plants form a major resource base of India's indigenous health care traditions. Statistics indicate that more than 90 per cent of the species used in trade continue to be sourced from wild of which about third are harvested by destructive means.
The note says, “Re-emergence of interest in herbal plant based healthcare globally, on one hand and unsustainable collection from the wild without adequate efforts at conservation and sustainable harvest, on the other hand are resulting in a large number of species coming under serious threat of extinction leading to use of substitutes and adulterants thereby affecting the efficacy and safety of the Ayush and herbal products.”
Through this scheme the government will be ensuring sustained supply of quality medicinal plants through programmes of in-situ conservation, survey and documentation, ex situ conservation of endangered and threatened species of medicinal plants, R&D, training and awareness and promotional activities like creation of home and school herbal etc.
The scheme also seeks to support programmes for quality assurance and standardisation through development of Good Agriculture and Collection Practices (GACP); development of monographs laying down standards of quality, safety and efficacy; development of agro-techniques and a credible institutional mechanism for certification of quality of raw drugs, seeds and planting material.
Department of Ayush aims to promote sustainable harvesting protocols of medicinal plants from forest areas and certification thereof and establish gene banks or seed orchards to create an authentic source of seed and germplasm for future.
The Department is hopeful that by implementing this scheme they will be able to able to develop protocols for cultivation and quality control which will help and encourage the protection of patent rights and IPR.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
The Free Press: AYUSH doctors to be deployed in village PHCs
AYUSH doctors to be deployed in village PHCs
India
Sep 23, 2011
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BHOPAL The rained community Kamla they and CMs protest demolition temple recently.
condemned a community Shivraj apprised Jain spokesman that wall temple, taken of All community children singing police meeting Bhopal: The State government, on Thursday, gave a go- ahead to a proposal for posting of BDS and Ayurvedic and Unani degree holders in primary and community health centres to meet the demand for doctors in the rural areas.
The government will provide nine months training to them before the posting in medical colleges, said official sources.
A cabinet sub- committee formed to explore suggestions to meet the demand for MBBS doctors'in rural areas suggested this. Cabinet held on Thursday accepted its major recommendations, they said.
The idea however, to float a three- year degree course in Allopathic medicine was dropped following the experience of Chhattisgarh state. " It was dropped by the sub committee," said committee head and government spokesman Dr Narottam Mishra.
The government aims to posting 300 doctors in first phase
India
Sep 23, 2011
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BHOPAL The rained community Kamla they and CMs protest demolition temple recently.
condemned a community Shivraj apprised Jain spokesman that wall temple, taken of All community children singing police meeting Bhopal: The State government, on Thursday, gave a go- ahead to a proposal for posting of BDS and Ayurvedic and Unani degree holders in primary and community health centres to meet the demand for doctors in the rural areas.
The government will provide nine months training to them before the posting in medical colleges, said official sources.
A cabinet sub- committee formed to explore suggestions to meet the demand for MBBS doctors'in rural areas suggested this. Cabinet held on Thursday accepted its major recommendations, they said.
The idea however, to float a three- year degree course in Allopathic medicine was dropped following the experience of Chhattisgarh state. " It was dropped by the sub committee," said committee head and government spokesman Dr Narottam Mishra.
The government aims to posting 300 doctors in first phase
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
u can do it
They can do it
Unani doctors can handle minor medical emergencies
ISSUE BY DR. MUHAMMAD IQBAL
There has been a lot of hue and cry regarding the prescribing of allopathic medicine by BUMS/BAMS doctors and conducting emergencies in allopathic medicine health institutions where they are posted on contractual basis or as part of the NRHM programme. In the recently conducted workshop on role of ISM doctors in NRHM programme held at Ibn-e-Khaldum auditorium at university of Kashmir, the main topic for Director NRHM and Director Health Services was, not to allow BUMS doctors to handle the medical emergencies during their night duties.
It is pertinent to mention here for the information of the officers of Department of Health and the other policy makers in medical and Health Education Department that BUMS doctors have been looking after the emergency patients through the country in the Government ISM institutions which are usually located in the far flung and remote areas of the country. Let me remind all my friends in allopathic medicine that almost 25 per cent of the emergency drugs including dressing materials etc were supplied to unani dispensaries to meet the day to day exigencies. The medical officers of the ISM were involved in the National Health & Immunization programmes also. After the establishment of the separate Directorate, same process continued for a long time.
The question of handling allopathic drugs has arisen in just recent past when the doctors having the ISM degrees were posted in allopathic health institutions in the rural areas on contractual basis and under NRHM scheme. I am strongly of the opinion that a BUMS/BAMS doctor should treat the patient according to the principles of treatment prescribed in their own system of medicine. They should use the single as well as compound drugs of their own pathies. In addition to this they should practice the art of Regiminal Therapies which are the part of their training schedule.
It is an admitted fact that a common man visits the clinic of Hakim/Vaid for Unani or Ayurvedic treatment. This is true even for those who are working in AYUSH Health Centers. At the same times this process is visible only during their routine OPD's or for those who are working in private clinic whether rural or urban. But what about the emergencies as and here I do not agree with the signatories of the circular No. DISM/PMU/CR/09 on the following grounds:-
1. The registration of BUMS/BAMS doctors is being done under CCIM act and not under MCI act 1956.
2. The CCIM is the main governing body of the ISM academic curriculum and the education to BUMS/BAMS graduates is imparted as per the syllabus prescribed by CCIM and approved by Department of AYUSH Ministry of Health, Government of India.
3. The prescribed syllabus is taught to BUMS Doctors for four and half years followed by one year compulsory rotatory internship.
4. The prescribed syllabus is very comprehensive and includes all the advances made in the field of medicine and accordingly some portions of modern medicines is being taught to the students from 1st professional year up to the final professional year in all subjects.
5. These considerations have been put into the syllabus by CCIM for the medical practitioners to meet the emergencies and the situations which warrant so.
6. I am sure that a BUMS/BAMS graduate is fully trained to understand the nature of emergencies and is capable of referring the patients to a specified higher centre when required. At the same time he is fully trained to meet the minor emergencies of the same nature as an MBBS doctor.
I invite the attention of all the signatories of above mentioned circular and other policy makers of the health system to please study the latest prescribed syllabus of BUMS course laid down by CCIM and to my mind that can be an eye opener for all of us.
(Dr. Muhammad Iqbal is Executive Member All India Tibbi Conference)
Unani doctors can handle minor medical emergencies
ISSUE BY DR. MUHAMMAD IQBAL
There has been a lot of hue and cry regarding the prescribing of allopathic medicine by BUMS/BAMS doctors and conducting emergencies in allopathic medicine health institutions where they are posted on contractual basis or as part of the NRHM programme. In the recently conducted workshop on role of ISM doctors in NRHM programme held at Ibn-e-Khaldum auditorium at university of Kashmir, the main topic for Director NRHM and Director Health Services was, not to allow BUMS doctors to handle the medical emergencies during their night duties.
It is pertinent to mention here for the information of the officers of Department of Health and the other policy makers in medical and Health Education Department that BUMS doctors have been looking after the emergency patients through the country in the Government ISM institutions which are usually located in the far flung and remote areas of the country. Let me remind all my friends in allopathic medicine that almost 25 per cent of the emergency drugs including dressing materials etc were supplied to unani dispensaries to meet the day to day exigencies. The medical officers of the ISM were involved in the National Health & Immunization programmes also. After the establishment of the separate Directorate, same process continued for a long time.
The question of handling allopathic drugs has arisen in just recent past when the doctors having the ISM degrees were posted in allopathic health institutions in the rural areas on contractual basis and under NRHM scheme. I am strongly of the opinion that a BUMS/BAMS doctor should treat the patient according to the principles of treatment prescribed in their own system of medicine. They should use the single as well as compound drugs of their own pathies. In addition to this they should practice the art of Regiminal Therapies which are the part of their training schedule.
It is an admitted fact that a common man visits the clinic of Hakim/Vaid for Unani or Ayurvedic treatment. This is true even for those who are working in AYUSH Health Centers. At the same times this process is visible only during their routine OPD's or for those who are working in private clinic whether rural or urban. But what about the emergencies as and here I do not agree with the signatories of the circular No. DISM/PMU/CR/09 on the following grounds:-
1. The registration of BUMS/BAMS doctors is being done under CCIM act and not under MCI act 1956.
2. The CCIM is the main governing body of the ISM academic curriculum and the education to BUMS/BAMS graduates is imparted as per the syllabus prescribed by CCIM and approved by Department of AYUSH Ministry of Health, Government of India.
3. The prescribed syllabus is taught to BUMS Doctors for four and half years followed by one year compulsory rotatory internship.
4. The prescribed syllabus is very comprehensive and includes all the advances made in the field of medicine and accordingly some portions of modern medicines is being taught to the students from 1st professional year up to the final professional year in all subjects.
5. These considerations have been put into the syllabus by CCIM for the medical practitioners to meet the emergencies and the situations which warrant so.
6. I am sure that a BUMS/BAMS graduate is fully trained to understand the nature of emergencies and is capable of referring the patients to a specified higher centre when required. At the same time he is fully trained to meet the minor emergencies of the same nature as an MBBS doctor.
I invite the attention of all the signatories of above mentioned circular and other policy makers of the health system to please study the latest prescribed syllabus of BUMS course laid down by CCIM and to my mind that can be an eye opener for all of us.
(Dr. Muhammad Iqbal is Executive Member All India Tibbi Conference)
Friday, August 19, 2011
ayush doctor
Dispur thrust for AYUSH
WASIM RAHMAN
Herbal healing
Jorhat, Aug. 19: The Assam government has given a special thrust to popularise alternative medicine and treatment and pushed for prescribing AYUSH (ayurveda, yoga and naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy) medicines in government hospitals.
In a directive to all the district joint directors of health services recently, the mission director of the state unit of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), J.B. Ekka, asked them to ensure that AYUSH medicines were prescribed by doctors.
Allopathic and AYUSH drugs supplied under the mission are supplied free of cost to patients in government hospitals, dispensaries and public health centres.
The letter said mainstreaming of AYUSH was one of the main components of the rural health mission.
The national mission had appointed 267 ayurvedic and 50 homoeopathic doctors recently, apart from the doctors recruited by the state government, to provide medical services under AYUSH.
While reviewing the utilisation of AYUSH drugs across the state, it was found that the patients were not being prescribed such medicines.
The directive said AYUSH doctors from different parts of the state had earlier complained that they had not been able to practice what they had studied because of the non-availability of medicines where they were posted.
However, since 2009-2010, AYUSH medicines and required medical kits were supplied to hospitals, dispensaries and PHCs where the doctors were posted.
The mission director asked the joint directors of health services in the districts to take up the matter with the doctors. The letter said if AYUSH drugs were not prescribed, the mission might stop supplying the medicines in future.
Following the NRHM directive, the state programme officer for AYUSH, who is also the deputy director of health services, H.H. Islam, last month had asked the districts to furnish details of utilisation and current stock position of ayurvedic and homoeopathic drugs.
Islam also asked for information on the requirement of the drugs.
Joint director health services (Jorhat), Mintu Gogoi, said following the directive, he had reviewed the matter with the doctors posted in the hospitals, dispensaries and PHCs.
Gogoi said there was sufficient stock of AYUSH medicines in the district.
The NRHM move comes after the state government issued a notification regarding the setting up of a separate directorate for AYUSH under the health department earlier this year.
The directorate was being set up to accord special attention to medical education, planning, training and research for the branches of medicine falling under AYUSH.
All the three government homoeopathy colleges and hospitals and the only government ayurveda college in the state will come under the administrative control of the new directorate. The homeopathy colleges and hospitals are in Jorhat, Nagaon and Guwahati, while the ayurvedic one is in Guwahati.
There will be a separate wing of AYUSH in all the civil hospitals of the districts and subdivisions, upto the sub-centre level.
The directorate will promote indigenous, traditional and community medicine research in the state and co-ordinate with various councils of alternative medicines under the AYUSH sector.
WASIM RAHMAN
Herbal healing
Jorhat, Aug. 19: The Assam government has given a special thrust to popularise alternative medicine and treatment and pushed for prescribing AYUSH (ayurveda, yoga and naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy) medicines in government hospitals.
In a directive to all the district joint directors of health services recently, the mission director of the state unit of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), J.B. Ekka, asked them to ensure that AYUSH medicines were prescribed by doctors.
Allopathic and AYUSH drugs supplied under the mission are supplied free of cost to patients in government hospitals, dispensaries and public health centres.
The letter said mainstreaming of AYUSH was one of the main components of the rural health mission.
The national mission had appointed 267 ayurvedic and 50 homoeopathic doctors recently, apart from the doctors recruited by the state government, to provide medical services under AYUSH.
While reviewing the utilisation of AYUSH drugs across the state, it was found that the patients were not being prescribed such medicines.
The directive said AYUSH doctors from different parts of the state had earlier complained that they had not been able to practice what they had studied because of the non-availability of medicines where they were posted.
However, since 2009-2010, AYUSH medicines and required medical kits were supplied to hospitals, dispensaries and PHCs where the doctors were posted.
The mission director asked the joint directors of health services in the districts to take up the matter with the doctors. The letter said if AYUSH drugs were not prescribed, the mission might stop supplying the medicines in future.
Following the NRHM directive, the state programme officer for AYUSH, who is also the deputy director of health services, H.H. Islam, last month had asked the districts to furnish details of utilisation and current stock position of ayurvedic and homoeopathic drugs.
Islam also asked for information on the requirement of the drugs.
Joint director health services (Jorhat), Mintu Gogoi, said following the directive, he had reviewed the matter with the doctors posted in the hospitals, dispensaries and PHCs.
Gogoi said there was sufficient stock of AYUSH medicines in the district.
The NRHM move comes after the state government issued a notification regarding the setting up of a separate directorate for AYUSH under the health department earlier this year.
The directorate was being set up to accord special attention to medical education, planning, training and research for the branches of medicine falling under AYUSH.
All the three government homoeopathy colleges and hospitals and the only government ayurveda college in the state will come under the administrative control of the new directorate. The homeopathy colleges and hospitals are in Jorhat, Nagaon and Guwahati, while the ayurvedic one is in Guwahati.
There will be a separate wing of AYUSH in all the civil hospitals of the districts and subdivisions, upto the sub-centre level.
The directorate will promote indigenous, traditional and community medicine research in the state and co-ordinate with various councils of alternative medicines under the AYUSH sector.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
AYUSH in CGHS
HC orders Forces to pick up tab
August 04, 2011 12:51:37 AM
Staff Reporter | New Delhi
Despite a recommendation in 2002 that ayurveda, unani, homoeopathy and other systems of medicine be incorporated for purpose of reimbursement under the Central Government Health Scheme, the Indian Armed Forces do not recognise such systems of medicine for reimbursement of medical expenses. However, this is likely to change with the Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordering the Centre, the Army, Navy and Air Forces to look into the National Policy on Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy and frame a scheme for medical treatment/reimbursement for their employees.
A Division Bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna ordered the Central Government, the Army, Navy and Air Forces to look into the National Policy on Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy and frame a scheme for medical treatment/reimbursement for their employees particularly since such systems provide a cure for ailments that are otherwise not curable by allopathy. The court said that this needed to be done within three months.
The PIL, filed by advocate Arjun Harkauli, was based on a report in The Pioneer on July 20 which had highlighted the case of NSG commando PV Maneesh (Shaurya Chakra awardee) who was paralysed after being injured during operations during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. He had been paralysed on one side of the body and was also in coma for some time. It was only after he began ayurvedic treatment that he began recovering. However, the Rs 2,000 monthly expenditure on ayurveda was not reimbursed by the Army as its medical rules do not recognise it.
The irony of the situation is that despite the existence of AYUSH (Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) within the Health ministry and the widespread acceptability of traditional systems of medicine across the country, defence services personnel at present cannot claim reimbursement for any treatment apart from allopathy. According to the petition, the National Policy on Indian Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy had in 2002 stated that ayurveda and other systems must be incorporated for purpose of reimbursement under the Central Government Health Scheme There are twice as many hospitals and practitioners of such systems than there are of allopathy. According to the policy, alternate systems of Indian medicine are cheap and provide solutions for ailments for which allopathy has no cure.
August 04, 2011 12:51:37 AM
Staff Reporter | New Delhi
Despite a recommendation in 2002 that ayurveda, unani, homoeopathy and other systems of medicine be incorporated for purpose of reimbursement under the Central Government Health Scheme, the Indian Armed Forces do not recognise such systems of medicine for reimbursement of medical expenses. However, this is likely to change with the Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordering the Centre, the Army, Navy and Air Forces to look into the National Policy on Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy and frame a scheme for medical treatment/reimbursement for their employees.
A Division Bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna ordered the Central Government, the Army, Navy and Air Forces to look into the National Policy on Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy and frame a scheme for medical treatment/reimbursement for their employees particularly since such systems provide a cure for ailments that are otherwise not curable by allopathy. The court said that this needed to be done within three months.
The PIL, filed by advocate Arjun Harkauli, was based on a report in The Pioneer on July 20 which had highlighted the case of NSG commando PV Maneesh (Shaurya Chakra awardee) who was paralysed after being injured during operations during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. He had been paralysed on one side of the body and was also in coma for some time. It was only after he began ayurvedic treatment that he began recovering. However, the Rs 2,000 monthly expenditure on ayurveda was not reimbursed by the Army as its medical rules do not recognise it.
The irony of the situation is that despite the existence of AYUSH (Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) within the Health ministry and the widespread acceptability of traditional systems of medicine across the country, defence services personnel at present cannot claim reimbursement for any treatment apart from allopathy. According to the petition, the National Policy on Indian Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy had in 2002 stated that ayurveda and other systems must be incorporated for purpose of reimbursement under the Central Government Health Scheme There are twice as many hospitals and practitioners of such systems than there are of allopathy. According to the policy, alternate systems of Indian medicine are cheap and provide solutions for ailments for which allopathy has no cure.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
MCI and its right
RE: [Quality_of_Medical_Education] Re: Six months pharmacy course for AYUSH! ! ! ! !
Dear All
I do not understand why an ayurvedic practioner should be allowed to to prescribe medicines
from allopathic pharmacopia.Let them enroll in MBBS if they want to do it.
With warm regards
Yours sincerely
DR ANUP DHIR
Senior Consultant Apollo Hospital
Secretary Indian Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
101 ANSAL TOWER
38 NEHRU PLACE
NEW DELHI 110019 INDIA
To: Quality_of_Medical_Education@yahoogroups.com
CC: hosp_admn_india@yahoogroups.com
From: bondwithash@...
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:17:29 +0530
Subject: Re: [Quality_of_Medical_Education] Re: Six months pharmacy course for AYUSH! ! ! ! !
Dear Dr Sushama Anil
I would request you to kindly broaden your vision. Some points to consider are
1. MCI was established to regulate the colleges that were dishing out degrees in "MODERN MEDICINE" . It defines Medicine as ""medicine" means modern scientific medicine in all its branches and includes surgery and obstetrics, but does not include veterinary medicine and surgery;". The Supreme court in the case referred below, observed that Allopathy was referred to "Modern" only in terms of age and NOT in terms of superiority.
The MCI was not established to monitor or regulate AYUSH streams of medicine. So it has no scope to talk about AYUSH. And it stating that only Allopathy medicine should be allowed to be practiced would be the attitude of a big bully and can be challenged for monopoly tactics. Fortunately it has not claimed so, but everyone assumes it to be so.
2. The Government DOES recognize these streams of medicine. Please do visit the link http://india.gov.in/sectors/health_family/ayush.php and understand that efforts are being made to develop them.
3. Please dont trivialize this issue by saying that a six month pharmacology course can be taught to panchayats and they can work in lieu of doctors. I would also request you to go through the curriculum of the AYUSH courses before you equate them with psychologists, physiotherapists and of course Panchayats.
4. Your attitude and response does acquaint me with the way Gallileo felt when he claimed Earth was round and circled the Sun....he was punished for it. This happened 500 yrs back and if you know the Indian history, Aryabhatta 2500 yrs ago had proved the same thing. India in history was known for its scientific awareness and Ayurved was also a product of that era. It is just that we indians somehow allowed foreign influence to brainwash ourselves to forget this and accept the western ideology.
Regards
Maj(Dr) Ashwin Devanahalli
Dear All
I do not understand why an ayurvedic practioner should be allowed to to prescribe medicines
from allopathic pharmacopia.Let them enroll in MBBS if they want to do it.
With warm regards
Yours sincerely
DR ANUP DHIR
Senior Consultant Apollo Hospital
Secretary Indian Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
101 ANSAL TOWER
38 NEHRU PLACE
NEW DELHI 110019 INDIA
To: Quality_of_Medical_Education@yahoogroups.com
CC: hosp_admn_india@yahoogroups.com
From: bondwithash@...
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:17:29 +0530
Subject: Re: [Quality_of_Medical_Education] Re: Six months pharmacy course for AYUSH! ! ! ! !
Dear Dr Sushama Anil
I would request you to kindly broaden your vision. Some points to consider are
1. MCI was established to regulate the colleges that were dishing out degrees in "MODERN MEDICINE" . It defines Medicine as ""medicine" means modern scientific medicine in all its branches and includes surgery and obstetrics, but does not include veterinary medicine and surgery;". The Supreme court in the case referred below, observed that Allopathy was referred to "Modern" only in terms of age and NOT in terms of superiority.
The MCI was not established to monitor or regulate AYUSH streams of medicine. So it has no scope to talk about AYUSH. And it stating that only Allopathy medicine should be allowed to be practiced would be the attitude of a big bully and can be challenged for monopoly tactics. Fortunately it has not claimed so, but everyone assumes it to be so.
2. The Government DOES recognize these streams of medicine. Please do visit the link http://india.gov.in/sectors/health_family/ayush.php and understand that efforts are being made to develop them.
3. Please dont trivialize this issue by saying that a six month pharmacology course can be taught to panchayats and they can work in lieu of doctors. I would also request you to go through the curriculum of the AYUSH courses before you equate them with psychologists, physiotherapists and of course Panchayats.
4. Your attitude and response does acquaint me with the way Gallileo felt when he claimed Earth was round and circled the Sun....he was punished for it. This happened 500 yrs back and if you know the Indian history, Aryabhatta 2500 yrs ago had proved the same thing. India in history was known for its scientific awareness and Ayurved was also a product of that era. It is just that we indians somehow allowed foreign influence to brainwash ourselves to forget this and accept the western ideology.
Regards
Maj(Dr) Ashwin Devanahalli
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