08/08/2016
14 May 2016
Where India leads the world will follow?
India, being a country with a huge population, must take pragmatic decisions when it comes to managing the health of its citizens. One of its most recent decisions is to draft a national policy for AYUSH (which includes the five disciplines of Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) under the universal health insurance scheme, thereby integrating the 5 disciplines into the public health system. This move has been supported at the top level of the Indian Government, including the Indian Prime Minister.
With the new national policy the Indian Government aims to promote India as a centre of excellence for the AYUSH systems and harness their potential for improving primary and preventive health care. The policy aims at making the AYUSH systems the preferred choice of treatment in primary care and will set specific targets for regulation and research as well as set standards for AYUSH medicines and treatments. A very conscious aim of the strategy is to fill the gap in the supply of doctors by training AYUSH practitioners to handle primary care needs.
As part of a wider strategy promoting AYUSH, India is seeking to collaborate with WHO and the USA in research and development of AYUSH. One specific objective will be to establish WHO benchmarks for the practice of the 5 disciplines.
http://www.homeopathy-ich.org/
The Bill was presented by Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne on June 7. The Bill replaces the Homoeopathy Act of 1970.