Ayush doctors can prescribe allopathy medicine: Odisha
In a recent NEWS published in TOI, Odisha Govt is under the process of allowing Ayush doctors to prescribe allopathy medicines after a few weeks training in Primary Health.
Bhubaneswar: The doctors of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH doctors) in the state will soon prescribe allopathic medicines.
The state government has decided to impart short-term trainings to the practitioners of alternative medicines and allow them to write selected allopathic drugs to patients, official sources said.
As per the government move, the AYUSH doctors will be given a few weeks’ training of on a curriculum to be prepared by the state-run Institute of Health and Family Welfare. The training will be on basic management of primary health centres, patient care and leadership. After that the health department will come out with a standard treatment protocol and list of allopathic drugs, which the AYUSH doctors can prescribe, the sources said.
Confirming the move, N K Das, special secretary in the health department, said the AYUSH doctors will be trained only to prescribe certain limited allopathic medicines which even pharmacists, auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs) and accredited social health activists (ASHAs) are handling. “It will help in better implementation of various national health programmes such as for malaria control,” he said.
