The Health and Family Welfare Department (AYUSH Branch), Government of West Bengal through its notification allows AYUSH practitioners to prescribe modern medicines including Antibiotics . The above notification comes with some riders. The concerned practitioners must have qualifications specified in the second schedule to the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970.
The said permission is limited to the drugs those mentioned in "Schedule A" only to the extent of training imparted to them as per the syllabus prescribed from time to time by the Central Council of Indian medicine under the aforesaid act of 1970. However, these practitioners are not allowed to perform procedures indicated in "Schedule B" This may be considered a welcome move in the way that people residing in a remote area may have access to at least trained professionals rather than to quacks. But the issue is…
