TN govt announces steps to boost Indian systems of medicine

[dinesh kumar]

Some of them are,

1. Rs.15 crores for upgrading infrastructure in all govt. ISM colleges.
2. Rs.10 crores for developing human resource & infrastructure, national accreditation status for Anna hospital, arumbakkam, chennai
3. Exclusive R&D division for AYUSH stream, for quality control of medicine & publishing in international medical research journals.
4.   “Lifestyle clinics”(Using yoga & naturopathy methods for treatment of non-communicable diseases)to be started in all government hospitals at cost of Rs.9 crore& 60 lakhs.
5.   A new journal to be launched for communicating AYUSH concepts & therapies to public.
6.   Ayurveda & Unani doctors in Govt service to be sponsored by govt to pursue PG at other states.
7.  Facility for providing registration certificates with unique URL , 2-D-barcode. This will  eradicate prevalence of fake practitioners
8. Awareness campaigns for using Curry leaves (Murraya koenigii)as primary care for treatment of anemia.

Other significant announcements:

1.  Linkage of all 18 govt college hospitals with a CENTRAL SERVER at Chennai for Medical information management & hospital management system .
2. The year 2013-14 is announced as “year for prevention of non-communicable diseases”
3. Community based pain & palliative care centers to be started in all districts.
4. Ban on the manufacture, storage and sale of the carcinogenic chewable forms of tobacco:   The ban will be now implemented under the provisions of the Food Safety and Standards Act, which specifically states that no food product should contain tobacco and nicotine as ingredients. With this, 30 States in the country have officially banned the cancer-causing substance.
5. Molecular virology labs to be set at four of Govt. medical college hospitals.

More info at the following link:

http://cms.tn.gov.in//sites/default/files/press_release/pr080513_110_health.pdf

[agnivesh health organisation]

really it is a welcome step,

on the part of tn government. there are also additional vacancies being opened up for ayurvedic doctors in e.s.i hospitals. hope the trend goes on, and gives concrete benefit to ayurvedic fraternity aswell as public.