Government Focuses on Education and Quality to Promote Ayush



Government Focuses on Education and Quality to Promote Ayush

  

The Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Shri S Gandhiselvan has said that the government is making far reaching efforts to mainstream Indian Systems of Medicine (Ayush) through quality control and holistic medical education. Speaking at the conference organized by CII, here today, Shri Gandhiselvan pointed out that the National Rural Health Mission is the main vehicle to achieve the goal. The NRHM seeks to open up local health tradition and mainstream AYUSH including the manpower and drugs and to strengthen the public Health System at all levels.

  

The Minister informed that a proposal before the Government is to have a medical facility combining western medicine and Indian System of Medicine to provide holistic medical treatment as it is not possible to open hospitals having facilities for only traditional medicine. He also said that another suggestion gaining ground is for allopathic medical courses to include AYUSH so that students are able to get the best of all aspects of medical knowledge.

  

Emphasizing the need for quality control, Shri Gandhiselvan said that Quality Council of India, an autonomous body, set up by the Government of India to promote quality, has been deputed by the Department of AYUSH to develop voluntary certification systems covering AYUSH products and medicinal plants. This mandate has recently been extended to cover quality standards of Ayurvedic Hospital Services.

  

The Minister said Medical education will have to be more inclusive and open ended with the knowledge of science itself open to alternate approaches. Preventive health education will give way to promotive health education relying more on the proven aspects of AYUSH systems, Shri Gandhselvan added.

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