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Project on Indian system of medicine fails to take off

Bindu Shajan Perappadan

Two Delhi hospitals have initiated it but have a long way to go

NEW DELHI: Over half a decade ago in an ambitious plan to integrate and offer to the patients the benefits of the Indian system of medicine with mainstream health care facility, the Department of Ayurveda Yoga Unani Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had proposed introducing and setting up speciality clinics of Ayurveda, Unani and Homoeopathy in the Central Government Hospitals in the Capital.

The idea was to bring in quality and easily accessible Indian system of medicine to Delhiites and those coming here for treatment.

Selected for this ambitious project was the country's premier medical institute All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) along with Safdarjung Hospital and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.

The project that was to be up and running by January 1998 has not even taken off in the Capital. While the Indian system of medicine unit has not been established at AIIMS "which claimed its inability to do so because of lack of space'', the other two hospitals, part this ambitious project, are yet to make available for the people the full benefits of the project.

"While the project failed to take off at AIIMS, Safdarjung Hospital and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital have initiated the programme but have a long way to go in terms of passing on the benefits to the patients in its totality. We are hoping that these hospitals would be able a step forward and offer the facility to the common man,'' said a senior AYUSH official.

The India system of medicine was to be offered as an additional facility treatment and the objectives of the project included providing an integration of Indian system of medicine with the main health care system, to focus on the treatment of those diseases for which Indian system of medicine has better management and efficacious remedies, to develop these clinics as referral specialist clinics for these diseases and to generate research data by way of maintaining proper clinical record of the treatment.

The special features of the centres included employing honorary consultations by eminent physicians in their respective systems of traditional medicine, who would regularly visit these clinics and will treat the patients.

According to the original proposed plan the centres were planned to start functioning from January 1998.

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