Mangaluru, November 16: State minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khadar has informed that, the state level Ayush Doctors conference will be held at Nehru Maidan in the city on November 22nd and 23rd.
Speaking in a press meet organised at the Circuit House here, he said the practitioners of , the branches of Ayush such as Ayurveda, Unani, Sidda, Homeopathy and Yoga and Naturology medical department are expected to participate in this conference.
The main intention of this convention is to strengthen the Indian system of medicine. There will be interaction sessions with well known doctors such as B M Hegde, Deviprasad Shetty. Various major issues will be raised and major decisions will be taken in the convention. State government is issuing bio-metric cards to avoid fake doctors posing as AYUSH doctors.
Karnataka Ayurvedic Yunani board, Ayush department, different associations of Ayush, AFI, Neema, Ayush Pharmaceutical Associations, Ayush Principles association, under their collaboration this conference is organised. As a pre-preparation of the conference, Ayush Utsava-2014 office has been opened in the Ayush department at Wenlock hospital, said Khader.
He said, Satyananda Murthy from Ayurvedic and Unani practice board will deliver his talk on overcoming the drawbacks over health issues in remote areas.
In the state, a total of 38,000-Ayurvedic, 12,000-Homeopathy and 1,05,000- Allopathic practitioners are registered. But only 40percent are serving in the state. Among this, 90 percent of the practitioners are practicing in the cities. Hence there is a lack of practitioners in the rural areas. Based on this, it is necesssary to distribute the practitioners depending on the population of District and Taluk. Khader said, he would discuss this matter with the ministers.
