eligibility criteria of the D. Pharmacy (Up-vaid) from 10 to 10+2,

Bhagat warns govt docs against private practice Thursday, February, 14 2013 - 13:53 CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Government has in principal raised the eligibility criteria of the D. Pharmacy (Up-vaid) from 10th to 12th. It was disclosed by Chunni Lal Bhagat, Medical Education and Research Minister, Punjab after presiding over the meeting of the Medical Education & Research Department at Punjab Bhawan, here today. Bhagat said that a delegation of Government Ayurvedic & Unani Upvaid Union (Punjab) submitted the memorandum and requested to raise the eligibility criteria of the D. Pharmacy (Up-vaid) from 10 to 10+2, which has been accepted. In the meeting, the Punjab Medical & Dental Teacher’s Association presented their demands, which was patiently heard by Minister and assured the delegation to look into the matter. A committee of the Principals and the Medical Superintendents was also constituted. The committee would submit the report to the Director Research & Medical Education, who would further submit the recommendations to the government for its consideration. The major demands of the association was Time Scale promotions, Academic Allowance, Research Allowance, Academic Leave, inclusion of NPA for all intent & purposes, etc. Bhagat has taken a serious view of private practice being done by some of the doctors, who are marring the image of the department. The Principals were instructed to convey the clear-cut message that the faculty should desist from such activities. The prominent amongst other, who were present in the meeting included; Mrs. Vini Mahajan, Principal Secretary, Harbhupinder Singh Nanda, Special Secretary, Dr. A.S. Thind, Director of Research & Medical Education Department, Principals of Government Medical College, Patiala and Amritsar, Principal of Government Ayurvedic College, Patiala and Medical Superintendent Government Medical College, Patiala. punjab news published 14/02/2013

Jharkhand Rural Health Mission Society Department of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of Jharkhand Advt No. – 07/2012 Last date for Application – 10 December, 2012 Contractual appointment of Allopathic and AYUSH Doctors for School Health Programme and mainstreaming of AYUSH Under National Rural Health Mission Jharkhand Rural Health Mission Society invites application from the suitable candidat for the contractual appointment of Allopathic and AYUSH Doctors for School Health Programme (SHP) and mainstreaming of AYUSH. All the positions are for the Primary Health Center (PHC) and Community Health Center (CHC) in the rural area under District Rural Health Society. Details for the positions are.... I. Name of the position and Number of posts Post Code 01 Name of the Post Medical Officer – SchoolHealth Programme Total No. of Post 388* Unreserved 194 Scheduled Tribe 101 Scheduled Caste 39 EBC 31 BC 23 02 Medical Officer – AYUSH 42 21 11 4 3 3

Gold awards for 28 AYUSH doctors

Gold awards for 28 AYUSH doctors By Express News Service - BANGALORE 09th November 2012 11:05 AM Health Minister Aravind Limbavali interacting with students of AYUSH in Bangalore on Thursday | Suresh Nampoothiri Health Minister Aravind Limbavali interacting with students of AYUSH in Bangalore on Thursday | Suresh Nampoothiri “A committee formed to look into the demands of Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) doctors to prescribe allopathy medicines during emergencies is expected to submit its report within two months. The state government will then take a decision,” said Health and Family Welfare Minister Aravind Limbavali. Speaking at a function organised by AYUSH department to present gold awards to doctors who have excelled in AYUSH medicine, the minister said AYUSH doctors contend their drugs work slowly and hence, need permission to prescribe allopathy medicines in emergencies. Twelve states have permitted AYUSH doctors to do so but not Karnataka. So, a committee headed by the additional chief secretary was constituted to look into the matter. Limbavali said, “All the hospitals and clinics have to compulsorily register with the health department within six months as per Karnataka Private Medical Establishment Act 2009. Besides, they have to display information regarding facilities available and also charges for treatments.” Principal Secretary for Health and Family Welfare M Madan Gopal said, “Lack of scientific research and standard treatment procedures based on protocols are coming in the way of people accepting AYUSH. Like how allopathy carries out research and development, even AYUSH should have a scientific research.” He said to promote AYUSH, he has recommended a mission on the lines of National Rural Health Mission. The government had not given awards since 2003. On Thursday, awards were given to 28 eminent doctors who have excelled in the field of AYUSH.

BSc.AYUSH

Medical fraternity peeved over new MCI course Ashish Gaur, TNN | Sep 26, 2012, 01.38PM IST Tweet INDORE: The decision of Medical Council of India (MCI) to introduce three-and-a-half-year degree course in community medicine after 12{+t}{+h} class, to deal with the shortage of doctors in rural areas, has evoked wide resentment among allopathic doctors and Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) fraternity here. Medical practitioners rue that B Sc in community health course that will be started from April next will lead to contradiction as students with allopathic and AYUSH degrees are already doing the same work. They say government should rather improve facilities in the rural areas rather than creating another lot of unemployed youth. President of the Indian Medical Association-MP branch Dr Dilip Acharya said, "Nearly a lakh AYUSH doctors in the country are unemployed and the new course will only lead to resentment within the community. Union government should rather train unemployed AYUSH doctors for six months and allow them to work to meet scarcity of medical officers in rural areas." Dr Acharya raised ambiguity over the surety that B Sc community medicine degree holders will serve the villages. "What if they take advantage of their degree and start practicing in urban areas?," he added. As per MCI, B Sc community health degree holder will be a special cadre of health workers trained mainly in district hospitals and placed in sub-centres or primary health centres and will be taught "some module of clinical work". This means this cadre can actually diagnose and treat basic medical cases, get involved in immunization programmes and administer extended first aid. The AYUSH medical officer association too is apprehensive about the new course. They said the government should give preference to people who have knowledge about medicine and body physiology and train them for better utilization of human resources. "A large number of people with AYUSH degrees are already unemployed. Government should initiate action to provide job avenues to them first," said Dr S D Jadhav, president, AYUSH medical officer association.

AYUSH facilities co-located with 9559 PHCs.

AYUSH facilities co-located with 9559 primary health centres Press Trust of India / New Delhi September 20, 2012, 22:15 The Health Ministry today said it had taken several steps for strengthening health care facilities by integrating department of ayurveda, yoga & naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy (AYUSH) systems in national health care delivery systems. The integration is facilitated by appointing or co-locating AYUSH doctors & supporting staff and creating infrastructure according to local needs, a statement by the ministry said. There were 640 districts, 6431 blocks and 638588 villages incorporating 605 District Hospitals (DHs), 4535 Community Health Centres (CHCs) and 23673 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) till March 2011. Out of these, AYUSH facilities had been co-located with 416 District Hospitals, 2942 Community Health Centres and 9559 Primary Health Centres during 2011. About 68.76 percent District hospitals had been co-located with AYUSH facilities till 2011, the ministry said in the statement. All the District hospitals existing in the states and union territories of Goa, Haryana, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Lakshadweep and Puducherry had been co-located with AYUSH facilities, whereas, the states having more than 50 percent of the District hospitals co-located with AYUSH facilities were Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttarakhand, the statement added. There had been no co-location of AYUSH facilities in the Districts hospitals of the remaining 12 states and union territories, the ministry said. Nearly 65 percent Community Health Centres had been co-located with AYUSH facilities till 2011. (More)

673 posts vacant in Ayush Dept.

Andhra Pradesh | Posted on Sep 21, 2012 at 10:43am IST 673 posts vacant in Ayush Departmen As many as 673 posts, including 211 doctors, are vacant in the Ayush department, medical education minister Kondru Murali informed the State Legislative Assembly here on Thursday. Replying to a question tabled in the House by G Mallesh and others, the minister stated that the posts will be filled shortly. RTE Modalities: In answer to another question by K Rambhupal Reddy and others, primary education minister S Sailajanath informed that the modalities for implementing the Right to Education (RTE) Act were yet to be finalised. He said the government had issued orders in 2010 reserving 25 pc seats for disadvantaged for admission to class-1 in private unaided schools. source: indianexpressExpress News Service

planning commission and AYUSH

Planning Commission raises health allocation Press Trust of India / New Delhi September 15, 2012, 20:25 The Planning Commission today finalised an outlay of Rs 3 lakh crore for the Health Sector in the 12th Five Year Plan, a rise of 288 per cent from the last Plan, accounting for 1.95 per cent of the GDP. Despite a massive hike, the allocation fell short of the Health Ministry's expectation which had sought over Rs 4 lakh crore for the sector from 2012 to 2017. Earlier, the Health Ministry and National Advisory Council led by Sonia Gandhi had expressed its displeasure after the draft chapter on health indicated total public investment on health to be only 1.58 per cent of GDP as against the suggested 2.5 per cent in the Approach Paper. Of the total Rs 3,00,018 crore allocated for the health sector during the Plan, the Department of Health and Family Welfare has been allocated Rs 2,80,551 crore, Department of AYUSH Rs 6,044 crore, the Department of Health Research Rs 4,029 crore and the Department of AIDS Control a total of Rs 9,394 crore. The 12th Plan was approved by the Planning Commission at its meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today. The Plan document would be brought into effect once the National Development Council (NDC) gives its final nod to it, after the Union Cabinet clears it. Once implemented, the Health Ministry is likely to unveil many of its ambitious programmes including the universal health care, provision of free medicines to all in public healthcare facilities and expanded National Health Mission, which includes the new National Urban Health Mission for the urban population, besides opening of new health institutions. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad also raised concerns of the Ministry before the Planning Commission at the meeting. The Health Ministry also opposed the Panel's proposal to change the system of allocation of funds to states under centrally-sponsored health schemes which it wants to monitor directly instead of the Ministry, Commission sources said. (MORE)