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Why can’t homoeopaths conduct deliveries? Anbumani

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‘Homoeopathy a time-tested stream of medicine’

Open to suggestion that would help address the problem of infant mortality
Ready to adopt any system of medicine to save mothers and children

NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss on Tuesday indicated a willingness to allow homoeopaths to conduct deliveries and thereby help in containing the incidence of maternal mortality.

Addressing the valedictory session of the National Workshop on Homoeopathy for Mother and Child Care — organised here by the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) and the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy — the Minister said he was open to any suggestion that would help address the problem of maternal and infant mortality in the country.

“If ‘dais’ [untrained midwives] can conduct deliveries, why then shouldn’t homoeopaths be allowed to do the same,” Dr. Ramadoss said in response to a demand from participating doctors that they be allowed to conduct deliveries as they were trained in gynaecology. “I am willing to adopt any system which can save the mothers and children of the country.”

Describing homoeopathy as a time-tested stream of medicine, the Minister said it would gain currency if it were also “science tested.” In this, he was echoing the Director-General of the Indian Council of Medical Research, N.K. Ganguly, who made out a strong case for evolving a proper mechanism for clinical trials of homoeopathic medicines.

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