Mumbai Corporation adopts ayurveda

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Mumbai Corporation adopts ayurveda

Due to the growing populaity and influence of ayurveda, Mumbai

Muncipal Corporation has decided to adopt ayurvedic therapy in its

168 dispensaries, in addition to existing allopathic therapy.

 

In a recent meeting of Public Health Administration Committee, this

decision was taken.

 

The additional comissioner of the Corporation had called a meeting of

all doctors and health officers working in its 168 dispensaries

spread all across Mumbai. The decision to impliment

ayurvedic therapy was finalised by all, having seen the success of

such implimentation in four dispensaries on a trial basis. The

commissioner advocated that ayurvedic approach works better

in chronic and serious diseases with less side effects and is less

expensive also, a fact important for poor patients. Since patients

visiting Corporation dispensaries are mostly from poor and middle

class, their needs to be emphasis on the treatment at less

expenditure.

 

 

The chairman of the Public Health Committee stressed that four

dispensaries where ayurveda is already introduced had heavy turnout

of patients. Similar rush of patients is seen in private ayurvdic

clinics also. Though India is birth place of ayurveda, ayurveda

is not adopted in this country itself to sufficient extent. After

introduction of ayurveda in Corporation dispensaries, the ayurveda

will become more popular in Mumbai residents, he hopes. The existing

allopathic system will also continue in parallel. Whether to continue

it further or close it will be decided in future, after studying

patient response.

 

This new item, published in Mumbai local papers, is of great

importance, since similar decisions will be taken by other

Corporations in future. The decision will go a long way in providing

ayurveda a proper footing that it deserves in its very motherland.

Since many Government and public sector organisations, banks, etc

offer reimbursement of ayurvedic medical expenditure, the health

expenditure from government is likely to reduce. Most corporate

sector organisations offer full support to ayurveda in India.

 

 

Dr Bhate