AYUSH Pharmaceutical Sciences

BHU professor nominated to prepare concept paper TNN | Jan 7, 2014, 11.54 AM IST Rasashastra Faculty of Ayurveda Institute|Ranjeet Roy Chaudhury|Medical Sciences Banaras Hindu University VARANASI: Dr Anand K Chaudhary of the department of Rasashastra, Faculty of Ayurveda, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), has been nominated as a member of the committee to prepare a concept paper for the establishment of Indian Institute of AYUSH Pharmaceutical Sciences (IIAPS). The department of AYUSH, ministry of health and family welfare, Government of India, has constituted the eight-member committee headed by the eminent pharmacologist Prof Ranjeet Roy Chaudhury of New Delhi. According to Chaudhary, the Ayurveda system of medicine is getting momentum worldwide along with Indian system of medicines like Yoga, Sidha, Unani and Homeopathy. This propagation is on virtue of intrinsic strength of fundamental principles of these systems and therapeutic properties of its medicines with their quality, safety and efficacy. He said the looking to these enhanced demand of medicines of these systems at global level, the department of AYUSH constituted the committee to prepare a concept paper for the establishment of IIAPS. This institute will ensure generation of data for quality and standard production of AYUSH system of medicines.

AYUSH - PIB

Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) Colleges and Hospitals in the Country The Central Government has taken measures to maintain the standards of AYUSH colleges and hospitals in the country by approving regulations for Ayurveda, Unani Siddha and Homoeopathy colleges notified by the CCIM and CCH as per details given below: · Indian Medicine Central Council (Minimum Standard of Education in Indian Medicine) (Amendment) Regulations, 2012 with further amendment in 2013 for Ayurveda undergraduate course. · Indian Medicine Central Council (Minimum Standards of Education in Indian Medicine) Amendment Regulations, 2013 for Unani undergraduate course. · Indian Medicine Central Council (Minimum Standards of Education in Indian Medicine) Amendment Regulations, 2013 for Siddha undergraduate course. · Homoeopathy (Degree Course) Regulations, 1983 with amendments in 2003 and 2005. · Indian Medicine Central Council (Post Graduate Ayurveda Education) Regulations, 2012. · Indian Medicine Central Council (Post Graduate Unani Education) Regulations, 2007. · Homoeopathy (Post Graduate Degree Course) M.D.(Hom.) Regulations, 1989 with amendments in 1993 and 2012. · Indian Medicine Central Council (Post-Graduate Diploma Course) Regulations, 2010 with amendment in 2013 for Ayurveda With due approval of the Central Government and as per the provisions under the Indian Medicine Central Council (IMCC) Act, 1970, the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) has framed minimum standards requirements for Unani and Siddha colleges and attached hospitals on the lines of such regulations framed for ayurveda colleges and attached hospitals in the country. The details are follows: · Indian Medicine Central Council (Minimum Standard Requirements of Unani Colleges and attached Hospitals) Regulations, 2013. · Indian Medicine Central Council (Minimum Standard Requirements of Siddha Colleges and attached Hospitals) Regulations, 2013. With due approval of the Central Government and as per the provisions under the Homoeopathy Central Council (HCC) Act, 1973, the Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH) has framed minimum standards requirements for Homoeopathy colleges and attached hospitals on the lines of such regulations framed for ayurveda colleges and attached hospitals in the country, entitled as ‘Homoeopathy Central Council (Minimum Standards Requirement of Homoeopathic Colleges and attached Hospitals) Regulations, 2013’. The number of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) colleges and hospitals in the country, State/UT-wise are: STATE/UT-WISE AYURVEDA, YOGA & NATUROPATHY, UNANI, SIDDHA AND HOMOEOPATHY (AYUSH) COLLEEGS AND ATTACHED HOSPITALS IN THE COUNTRY (As on 30.11.2013) AYUSH Colleges: Ayurveda-262 Yoga-18 Unani-42 Siddha-9 Homeopathy-188 Total=519 This was stated by Smt.Santosh Chowdhary, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare in a written reply to the Lok Sabha today.

Vacancies in Central Government Services

Vacancies in Central Government Services Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions 11-December-2013 18:17 IST Vacancies in Central Government Services Group-wise estimated number of vacant posts of regular Central Government Civilian Employees as on 01.03.2012 is as follows:- Group Number of Vacant posts A 12909 B(Gazetted) 10116 B (Non-Gazetted) 30977 C (Non Gazetted)* 546011 Total 600013 Erstwhile Group D posts have been categorized as Group C after implementation of 6th CPC. No such decision has been taken by the Government to reduce certain percentage of posts annually. As per the Office Memorandum issued by the Ministry of Finance (Department of Expenditure) on 18.09.2013 on ‘Expenditure Management – Economy measures and rationalization of Expenditure’, posts that have remained vacant for more than a year are not to be revived except under very rare and unavoidable circumstances and after seeking clearance of Department of Expenditure. Individual Ministries/Departments have to take necessary action to fill up vacant posts in their Departments. This was stated by Shri V. Narayanasamy, MOS (PP) in written reply to a question by Shri A. Sampath , Shri Ashok Kumar Rawat, Shri Vilas Muttemwar, Dr.Ram Chandra Dome and Shri M.B.Rajesh in Lok Sabha today. this is a test message

ICMR, CCRUM enter research & training pact

ICMR, CCRUM enter research & training pact to provide manpower training in preclinical & clinical research Ramesh Shankar, Mumbai Thursday, December 12, 2013, 08:00 Hrs [IST] The Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine (CCRUM) has entered into a research and training agreement with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) under which the ICMR will provide manpower training in several areas related to preclinical and clinical research especially clinical trials carried out under the Unani system as well as to bring in factor of quality to existing research practices presently operative. According to senior CCRUM officials, the research and training collaboration between the two premier institutions is significant because value can be added to the existing preclinical and clinical trial programmes while conducting all Unani medicine trials. This would facilitate the product entry in future into the global arena. “CCRUM realises that in the current context, undertaking regular training programme and working in collaborative mode with the ICMR is essential,” officials said. Under the collaboration agreement, the ICMR will provide training to CCRUM research staff in the areas identified by CCRUM and shall take necessary steps including imparting hands-on technical training so that research staff of CCRUM may get trained as per the international requirements. While jointly examining and validating the clinical trial protocols submitted by CCRUM, the ICMR will keep in view the fundamentals and special circumstances of Unani medicines. Under the pact, the ICMR has also agreed to put regularly at one year interval the progress made to the joint implementation and monitoring committee. Besides, the ICMR will identify, select and invite experts who will provide regular training to CCRUM research staff. As per the agreement, the ICMR will conduct collaborative research programmes specially at places and cities where both CCRUM and ICMR institutions have presence. For this purpose, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between the ICMR and the CCRUM, an apex organisation of Unani medicine engaged in clinical research, drug standardisation, survey and cultivation of medicinal plants in the country. pharmabiz.com

viable to create separate administrative set up for different systems of medicine. Since the infrastructural facilities of Wellness Centre are common for all systems,

Administrative Functioning of Cghs Unani Central Government Health Scheme provides the healthcare facilities to its beneficiaries predominantly in the Allopathic system of medicine as per their demand. AYUSH system of medicine is a very small component under CGHS. The Unani system is an even smaller component of AYUSH. There are 10 small units of Unani system consisting of one or two Unani doctors and pharmacists attached to main CGHS Wellness Centres in Delhi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Keeping in view the size and strength of Unani component, it is not considered feasible and financially viable to create separate administrative set up for different systems of medicine. Since the infrastructural facilities of Wellness Centre are common for all systems, the administrative control of Wellness Centre is vested in the CMO In-charge. The Unani doctors enjoy professional freedom in exercise of their duties as doctors. However, they are under the overall administrative control of the Additional Director (CGHS) of the city concerned. This was stated by Shri. Ghulam Nabi Azad, Union Minister for Heath and Family Welfare, in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha today. ****

Regimental Therapy for neurologcal disorder

Unani regimen offers hope to mishap victim By Mohammed Yacoob - BANGALORE Published: 18th November 2013 11:06 AM Last Updated: 18th November 2013 11:06 AM Imran Khan, a resident of Tumkur, had been bedridden for the best part of 12 years after nearly 200 kg of steel fell on his back when he was visiting a construction site. The 28-year-old lost all hope of walking again till he found out about Ilaj bit Tadbeer (regimental therapy), a little-known system of unani medicine involving massage, cupping and leeching using herbs. Imran underwent 14 months of continuous treatment at the National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM), which falls under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Now, he has started walking with support. The story of Tousif Ahmed from BTM Layout is similar to Imran’s. Tousif injured his spine in an accident in Andhra Pradesh in January 2012 in which his uncle died. “I was told by a private hospital that I would not walk again and would be bedridden for the rest of my life. But with intervention from NIUM, I am moving in a wheelchair and also walking with crutches,” he said. Tousif has been receiving treatment at the Institute for the past four months. He is currently shooting videos of recovering patients at NIUM in order to make a short film. “I had wanted to set up a call-centre after getting my BCA, but the accident crippled my dream. But as I can move again, I have set a target of five months to walk out of this hospital,” he said. Dr D A Muzzaffar Bhat, resident medical officer of NIUM, said the centre was focusing on neuro-rehabilitation. This included attending to patients who suffered from stroke, myopathy, epilepsy, motor-neuron disease, Parkinson’s disease, hemiplegia and paraplegia. He said NIUM takes up cases referred from other hospitals like NIMHANS. He referred to the successful treatment of Mohammed Farooq, who was admitted to Victoria Hospital after meeting with an accident. He was bedridden for eight months with no sensation in his lower-back. Farooq started treatment at NIUM in January and is now walking with the help of crutches. “No surgeries are done here and our approach is to develop cells and strengthen nerves and muscles,” Dr Bhat said . Options for Cerebral Palsy Aditya Kholi greets you with a smile and offers a chair to those who approach him and only when he tries to walk, do people notice a problem. Aditya is a child who was born with cerebral palsy and could hardly move his legs. His father Mahesh Kohli, an IT professional, had quit his job in Dubai to research treatment options for Aditya, when a friend told him about Ilaj bit Tadbeer. After five months of treatment, Aditya can now sit comfortably and also fold his legs and walk.

AYUSH & WHO

Monday, October 28, 2013 New Delhi: Smt. Santosh Chowdhary, Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare attended WHO High-Level Meeting on the implementation of WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy: 2014-2023 at Macau SAR, China today. Smt. Chowdhary said that relevance of traditional medicine today is talked about almost at every health forum because the world is facing dual spectrum of health problems, intractable lifestyle diseases and a wide gamut of geriatric health conditions. She said that effective solutions for these kinds of diseases are not found in modern medicine. So, Pluralistic health approach seems ideal and affordable. Therefore Governments must adopt multi-dimensional and broad-based policies and strategies to accommodate traditional medicine in the development of health infrastructure and services, she noted. Speaking about the previous WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2002-2005 the Minister said that it addressed the issues of policy, safety, efficacy, quality, access and rational use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine. Appreciating the efforts of the member states she said that the number of member states having a formal traditional medicine policy has increased from 25 in 1999 to 69 in 2012; the number of member states that have developed regulations on herbal medicines has increased from 65 in 1999 to 119 in 2012. However, India had enunciated the National Policy on Indian Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy way back in 2002 itself coincidently when global strategy on traditional medicine was framed by WHO. Smt. Chowdhary highlighted that India has a pluralistic healthcare delivery system where the Government provides opportunity to every recognized medical system to develop and be practiced. Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa- Rigpa and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) are recognized systems of traditional medicine in India and they have been integrated into the national health delivery system. There is a peaceful co-existence of Allopathy with AYUSH systems. She said that there is a separate department in our Ministry of Health called Department of AYUSH which provides focused attention for the development and promotion of AYUSH systems at national and international levels. The Minister said that during the last 7years, as many as 15,350 AYUSH facilities have been set up in Primary Health Centers, Community Health Centers and District Hospitals and 12022 AYUSH practitioners and 4905 AYUSH paramedical workers inducted into the Government healthcare services. A policy thrust has been given for functional integration of AYUSH in the initiative of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and national health programmes. She quoted that a survey conducted by National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC) in the year 2008 in 18 States of the country found that AYUSH dispensaries provided services to 20 to 120 patients per facility per day and 80-100 % of the households reported use of AYUSH- based local health traditions. Smt. Chowdhary said that India has developed a vast infrastructure of AYUSH facilities comprising of 7,20,937 Registered practitioners, 24,392 Dispensaries & 3,195 Hospitals in public sector, 508 Undergraduate Colleges with annual intake of 25,586 students, 117 centers for Post Graduate education with annual admission of 2,493 scholars and 8,785 licensed drug manufacturing units. The Government has supported resource augmentation in 38,954 hectares in forest areas for medicinal plants & support for cultivation of medicinal plants in 1,85,719 hectares of land has been provided to the farmers till September 2013, she added. Speaking about the National AYUSH Mission the Minister said that it aims to provide complete functional integration in the Essential Health Package and help in combating under-nutrition in children, reduction of anemia in women and prevention and reduction of burden of Communicable and Non-Communicable diseases (including mental illnesses). Smt. Chowdhary emphasized that India has developed Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) for protecting traditional knowledge against misappropriation and wrong patents. Under TKDL, digitization of the knowledge available in public domain in the form of existing literature related to Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Yoga, is being done in patent compatible format in five International languages English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish. Till September, 2013 a total of 2, 90,998 formulations have been transcribed, she said. The Minister noted that foreign nationals have been encouraged to come to India for studying Ayurveda. Quality of education, practice, research and drug manufacturing have been regulated and enforced with similar provisions which are stipulated for modern medicine. Smt. Chowdhary hoped that the implementation of the new strategy will be the turning point for the countries in mitigating health challenges with systematic utilization of traditional medicine and it would lead us to new era of Universal Health Coverage. Present at the occasion were Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General, World Health Organization, Mr Fernando Chiu, CEO Macau, Health Ministers of different Countries, officers and experts of WHO and various other dignitaries. - See more at: http://www.orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=45241#sthash.AM9MWdip.dpuf