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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Homeopaths can practice allopathy after studying pharmacology : Maharashtra government


 Maharashtra government today told the Legislative Assembly that Homoeopathic doctors wanting to practice allopathy should study pharmacology subject and an ordinance to this effect will be promulgated next month."Unani, homeopathy and others doctors wishing to practice allopathy should study pharmacology. It will be a full course of one year and they will be allowed to practice only after they clear the examination," State Medical Education Minister Vijay Kumar Gavit said it was not possible legally to allow medicos to practice a medicine which they have not studied.
 He said the Homeopathy Council in Delhi has been requested to include the subject of pharmacology in the homeopathy curriculum.
Once Vice-chancellor Dr Ravindra Bapat of The Maharashtra University of Health Sciences(MUHS)  said that the primary health sector, the first contact of the people with the doctors, was dominated by practitioners of homeopathy and ayurveda, especially in the rural areas.So instead of making these medical practitioners stop dispensing the medicines, the solution lay in empowering them with knowledge of allopathy to help them effectively treat the masses.He said the planned syllabus would consist of "preventive and curative medicine, medical diagnosis and standard treatment guidelines (STG)," and would also aim at equipping the medical practitioners with the essential drug list (EDL) prepared by the World Health Organisation.
Approval was being sought for the syllabus, which would be jointly prepared by the MUHS and the Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU), Bapat said.