One of the first decisions the Modi government has taken in this second term is to give a major push to the AYUSH streams of medicine. AYUSH Minister has announced that every primary health centre (PHC) would now have a doctor from an alternative medicine stream to treat patients, apart from a regular allopathic doctor. The AYUSH doctors are from the Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Unani and Siddha traditions of medicine.
AYUSH Minister has also announced ambitious plans to set up 1.12 lakh AYUSH clinics and 150 AYUSH hospitals. However, the kinds of medicine the AYUSH doctors will have the freedom to practice is still an open issue. Will they treat patients with their medicines only or can use modern medicines too as bring done by most AYUSH doctors illegally in most places which have been termed as quackery by Supreme Court but Maharashtra Govt has shown self-cooked illegal bypass of Bridge…
