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India to have separate drug controller for traditional medicine
Wednesday February 13, 2013 09:32:05 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Keeping
pace with global developments in drug control, the union health
ministry is planning to set up a separate central drug controller
for traditional systems of medicine and homeopathy.
"India has a pluralistic healthcare delivery system where the
government provides opportunity to every recognised medical system
to develop and practice, with a view to provide integrated and
holistic healthcare services," Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad
said Wednesday inaugurating the International Conference on
Traditional Medicine for South East Asian Countries here.
"The aim is to provide accessible, affordable, safe and quality
healthcare to the people, he said.
Azad said all these medical systems are being utilised in the
national healthcare delivery system, each to its potential and
availability in different parts of the country.
The process of mainstreaming has been further augmented under the
National Rural Health Mission, with co-location of traditional
medicine and homeopathy facilities in the primary health network
and capacity building of AYUSH practitioners in the national
programmes of Reproductive and Child Health, Safe Child Birth,
School Health, Anemia control and Malaria eradication, he said.
The minister said AYUSH doctors are now actively involved in
national health programmes pertaining to reproductive and child
health, school health, anaemia control and immunisation.
The government is planning to set up a separate central drug
controller for traditional systems of medicine and homeopathy,
senior officials said.
The decision was taken during an conference of traditional
medicine in South East Asian countries.
The conference was attended by health ministers of Bangladesh,
Bhutan and Nepal. The ministers of indigenous medicine, Sri Lanka
and other south east Asian countries, were also present.
India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangladesh
to cooperate in traditional medicine in the areas of exchange of
health professionals, development of human resources and research.
The MoU was signed by Azad and A.F.M. Ruhal Haque, health minister
of Bangladesh.
The parties also decided to promote cooperation between the two
countries in the fields of health and medical sciences.
Azad further said that the South-East Asian (SEA) countries have a
rich heritage of several systems of traditional medicine. They
have vast resources of medicinal plants and huge repositories of
knowledge.
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