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Markazu to launch Unani-Ayurveda-Siddha medical college in Kerala

October 9th, 2010

The ifluential Sunni Cultural Centre Markazu Saquafathi Sunniyya will soon launch a Unani-Ayurveda-Siddha medical college in this district of Kerala as part of its plan to give yet another venture in the healthcare sector.

Talking to newspersons here today, All India Sunni Jam’iathul Ulama General Secretary Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musliyar said as part of the first phase, work of the Markazu Unani Hospital and project office of the Unani Medical College would be inaugurated at a function here tomorrow.

The proposed medical college would have world class medical care and facilities for study and research and herbal plantation.

The project would be coordinated by experts, including former students of Markazu, Dr Ajaml and Dr Devadas, he said.

National Institute of Unani Medicine Director M A Jafri and Dr Devadas would be chief guests at the function.

The Markazu had decided to set up a modern Unani Medical College here as no such institution existed in the state whereas there were about 50 similar institutions in other parts of the country, he added.

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Ayurveda candidates cannot practice Allopathy: MCI

October 1st, 2010

The BAMS Graduates Association of India has condemned the recent release by the Medical Council of India which stated that candidates who have registered for Ayurveda have no right to practice Allopathy.

Suhas Joshi, President of the BGA stated “BAMS graduates are legally allowed to practice in Mahasashtra. In the 1999 amendment in Food and Drug Act of 1945, individual states were asked to frame their own laws to decide upon whether BAMS graduates can practice in alloapthy or not. Maharashtra government passed an order regarding the same. Other states should also follow the same.” He added, “Whenever there is reference to bogus doctors or quacks, Ayurvedic doctors are cited as examples. Organisations like MCI are responsible for this. BAMS graduates get training in allopathy medical sciences also including pharmacology. This fact is always ignored.”

The members pointed out that legal action may be taken if the Medical Council of India doesn’t respond.

A very unhappy . Subhash Ranade, President of International Ayurveda Academy, said, “The ancient science Ayurveda is being given step-motherly treatment by the government. The recently-formulated National Council for Human Resources in Health does not have any representative of AYUSH (Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy ). This is really unjust.”

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Himachal Pradesh Government to consider setting up of Ayurveda University in State: CM

September 26th, 2010

Shimla:  State Government would consider setting up of an Ayurvedic University in the state with a view to give boost to Ayurveda system of Medicine. This was stated by Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal in his inaugural address in the three day long ‘Aarogya Mela’ being organised by Aayush Department , Government of India and Ayurveda department of the state at Una today.

Chief Minister said that the state government would be spending Rs. 48 crore over the infrastructure upgradation and providing of Ayurvedic medicine in 300 ayurvedic health centres in the state. He said that the senior citizens were being provided separate OPD facilities in all the Ayurvedic hospitals of the state. He added that during period of 2008 to 2010, 49 free health check-up camps had been organised in which 7000 senior citizens had been benefited.

Chief Minister said that Panchkarma centres had been enhanced from six to sixteen in the State and 27 Ayurvedic hospitals had been brought under National Health Mission.
He said that MD and MS seats had also been enhanced from 24 to 39. He said that there were 1153 Ayurvedic Health Institution serving people I every part of the State. Prof Dhumal said that the State Government had enhanced the recruitment age from 45 to 52 of 155 Ayurveda doctors to be recruited soon.

Prof. Dhumal said that 10 bedded Ayurvedic hospitals had been opened at Una where OPD and Panchkarma facilities were made available to the people. He said that Ayurveda was one of the major activity which was being accorded priority in the State. He said that the system was gaining popularity in western countries too.
He said that it was for the first time that such a grand fair was organised , where free medical check-up and diagnosis was being provided.

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August 2nd, 2010
Beside the ayurvedic museum, the establishment of an innovative research lab promises to add another feather to the cap of the Dravyaguna department, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, this year.

The state-of-the-art innovative research lab will become functional at the end of this year. The lab would witness installation of highly sophisticated machines, including the atomic absorption spectro photometer (for detection of heavy metals in herbal preparations) and HPLC (for establishing authenticity of ayurvedic drugs and herbal preparations).
The innovative research lab would not only make the department self-reliant in terms of detection of heavy metals and establishing authenticity of heavy metals, it would also reduce its dependency on other departments including department of Medicinal Chemistry (faculty of Ayurveda) and Pharmaceutics (Institute of Technology) in the university. The museum is open to visitors and students, including foreign nationalsfrom 8 am to 5 pm.
The lab would be a boon for research scholars. It will also help in identifying newer indications in older ayurvedic drugs or herbal preparations besides acting as guidance and reference tool for the research scholars and faculty members.
Ayurvedic museum is the only ayurvedic museum at faculty or departmental-level at an ayurvedic institute in the country with rich collection of around 450 medicinal plants and rare herbs. The museum also witnesses rich collection of herbarium sheets containing parts of plants like flowers and leaves that are preserved under anti-fungal preparations. Parts of traditional medicinal plants, including bulb of garlic and rhizome of turmeric, are also preserved here.It has a wide range collection of rare medicinal plants with anti-viral properties, including kalmegh and ashwagandha.

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CERS alleges fat free remedies ads of ayurveda firm misleading, plans to move consumer court

July 26th, 2010
The Consumer Education and Research Society (CERS), a leading consumer rights organisation based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, is exploring legal options to complain with the consumer redressal forum against the allegedly misleading advertisement of the Thissur -based Sri Bhagavathy Madom Ayurveda Nikethanam, Kerala, for its fitness massage oil and fat free tablets.
The CERS, an not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation (NGO), alleges that the company’s claims on its two products, the Sri Bhagavathy Madom Fitness Massage Oil and the Fat Free, on advertisements published in various publications are misleading the consumers. The society has recently complained to the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), a self regulatory
voluntary organization of the advertising industry, against the advertisement.
“The ASCI has advised the company to withdraw the advertisement on dispute from publishing henceforth. However the company seems to carry on with the advertisement and our legal department is examining the issue for further actions,” said Pritee Shah, senior director, CERS and the editor with the society’s consumer magazine, Insight.
According to CERS complaint, “the ad said that the ‘Fat Free’ tablet is scientifically proven as reducing excess fat and cholesterol; and by using ‘Sri Bhagavathy Madom Fitness Massage Oil’ one can get rid of loose fat, wrinkles bulgings, swellings, dry skin, excess sweating and bad odour. ‘Use ‘Fat Free’ tablet and ‘Sri Bhagavathy Madom Fitness Massage Oil’ together and see the magical result within one month”, the ad claimed’”.
The Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) of ASCI found that the advertisement contravened Chapter 1.1 of the ASCI Code and has advised the advertiser to withdraw the said advertisement. The CCC, after considering the clinical data submitted by the advertiser, concluded that the claims mentioned in the ad and cited in the complaint were not substantiated adequately, says a press release from CERS.
The ASCI is the voluntary self-regulatory body dealing with complaints received from consumers and industry, against advertisements which are considered as false, misleading, indecent, illegal, leading to unsafe practices, or unfair to competition, and consequently in contravention of the ASCI Code for self-regulation in advertising.
Though the issue could be challenged with the state drug regulator pointing relevant acts and rules, the society, being a consumer organisation, would preferably move to the consumer redressal forum for a remedy, said Shah. However, management officials from Sri Bhagavathy Madom were not readily available for comments.

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Ayurveda Medical College to come up in Mahe

February 7th, 2010
A medical college offering Ayurveda courses would be started next year in Mahe as there was good response to it in the region, home and health minister E Valsaraj said here today.
Mahe in Kerala is an enclave of the Union Territory of Puducherry.
Speaking after inaugurating the two-day ninth annual conference of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Associations of Plastic Surgeons here, Valsaraj said the first Puducherry government run medical college would go on stream in the 2010-11 academic year, offering 150 MBBS seats.
Stating that Puducherry was now becoming a hub of medical education in the country, he pointed out that there are already seven medical colleges in the private sector.
Asserting that there was a need to restructure courses in government arts colleges here, he said Mahe region had an arts
college started some 40 years ago. Although the 10 courses offered in this college could have a student strength of 240, around 160 seats went abegging.
Outdated arts and science courses would have no relevance in the changing context. Hence collegiate education required to be revamped he said.
Vice Chancellor of Pondicherry University JAK Tareen who presided and released a souvenir of the conference, said the university was keen on having collaborative programmes and academic activities with medical colleges in Union Territory. New non-clinical courses were also finalised for introduction in the university, he said.

A medical college offering Ayurveda courses would be started next year in Mahe as there was good response to it in the region, home and health minister E Valsaraj said here today. Mahe in Kerala is an enclave of the Union Territory of Puducherry.
Speaking after inaugurating the two-day ninth annual conference of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Associations of Plastic Surgeons here, Valsaraj said the first Puducherry government run medical college would go on stream in the 2010-11 academic year, offering 150 MBBS seats.
Stating that Puducherry was now becoming a hub of medical education in the country, he pointed out that there are already seven medical colleges in the private sector.
Asserting that there was a need to restructure courses in government arts colleges here, he said Mahe region had an artscollege started some 40 years ago. Although the 10 courses offered in this college could have a student strength of 240, around 160 seats went abegging.
Outdated arts and science courses would have no relevance in the changing context. Hence collegiate education required to be revamped he said.
Vice Chancellor of Pondicherry University JAK Tareen who presided and released a souvenir of the conference, said the university was keen on having collaborative programmes and academic activities with medical colleges in Union Territory. New non-clinical courses were also finalised for introduction in the university, he said.

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Baba Ramdev’s Ayurveda College in Hardwar

January 5th, 2010
Union health and family welfare minister Ghulam Nabi Azad inaugurated the Patanjali Ayurveda College owned by yoga guru Swami Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth and Divya Yog Mandir Trust in Hardwar Monday.
The college will offer degree courses in Ayurvedic medicine and carry out advanced research in herbal therapies and diagnosis of rare diseases.
‘We will start with 50 students, who will be taught how to make herbal medicines, diagnose diseases according to Ayurvedic traditions and select medicinal herbs. The fact that we already have a health infrastructure with provision for 400 internal patients and an outpatients department catering to nearly 1,000 people every day will help. The college will be run in compliance with government norms,’ Acharya Balkrishnaji, vice-chancellor of the college and co-founder of Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust and Divya Yog Mandir, told IANS from Hardwar.
The seer said the ‘objective behind the hospital was to combine modern medical science with the ancient Ayurvedic medicine in India’.
‘We have state-of-the-art equipment, better than many hospitals in the country,’ the vice-chancellor said.
Union food processing minister Subodh Kant Sahay – along with 13 chief ministers from Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Goa and Sikkim – will inaugurate a herbal and organic food park spread over 95 acres in Hardwar.
‘The Rs.500-crore food park will manufacture aloe vera, amla (Indian goosebery), citrus fruits, vegetable and herbal juices and extracts. It will also process 150 tonnes of cereals rich in calcium and iron every day. The park will provide employment to 30,000 people and benefit hundreds of thousands of farmers who will be ensured fair price for their produce,’ a spokesperson for Patanjali Yogpeeth said.
The organisation, which is billing the park as one of the largest natural processed food zones in the world, has entered into an agreement with Uttarakhand and Punjab to source raw material from farmers.

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Nod to B-Pharma courses at Paprola college

June 1st, 2009

Shimila: The Government of India has given its approval to the state government to start B-Pharmacy courses at Rajiv Gandhi Government Ayurvedic College, Paprola, from the coming academic session.

Ayurveda adviser to the Government of India Dr SK Sharma stated this here today. He said the government had already released Rs 2 crore to Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, for running the classes. Besides, the government had also allowed this college to start BSc and MSc nursing courses. It had also sanctioned Rs 3 crore for this programme and out of this amount first instalment of Rs 2 crore had already been sent to the state government. He said if the state government provides necessary infrastructure then these courses could also start from this academic session.

He said if the government filled the vacant posts of teaching staff in Paprola college then postgraduate programme for panchkarma, rog nidan, bal rog, swasth brit and dravya gun could be introduced.

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250 ayurveda-related manuscripts digitised

May 19th, 2009

PUNE: A Hyderabad-based ayurveda institute has digitised about 250 manuscripts on ayurveda which are currently archived at the city-based Bharat Itihaas Sanshodhak Mandal. For this purpose, the Indian Institute of History of Medicine (IIHM) in Hyderabad had sent a team of five research scholars to digitise the manuscripts. The work which began on April 24 winded up on May 13.

The manuscripts date back to the 15th century right through to the 19th century, and are written in Marathi, Modi, Sanskrit, Bengali, Kannada, Urdu, Persian and Hindi. “The manuscripts are very informative regarding various issues related to health, for instance, proper eating habits, effective herbal medicines and concoctions and the like. The digitised versions of these documents will be used for further study by the Hyderabad-based institute,” said research scholar Bhujan Bobade, who is coordinating the digitisation process for the five-member team. He is currently associated with Hyderabad-based Andhra Pradesh Manuscript Library and Research Institute (APMLRI).

Read the complete article at source – TOI.

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New Medical Varsity to come up in Kerala by next year

February 6th, 2009

Thrissur, Kerala: The proposed Kerala University of Medical and Allied Sciences will start functioning from next year, Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy has said. She was speaking after inaugurating the project office of the proposed university on the Thrissur Government Medical College Hospital campus.

She hoped the project would achieve considerable progress in the next few months. Health Secretary Usha Titus said that courses would begin in the university from the 2010-2011 academic year.

“The proposed university will have departments of various medical disciplines like Modern Medicine, Ayurveda, Homoeopathy, Unani and allied subjects. The departments will be developed as centres of excellence with modern research facilities,” she said. The university will be set up on about 75 acres on the Thrissur Government Medical College campus.

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