Express News ServiceFirst Published : 23 Jun 2009 01:13:00 AM ISTLast Updated :
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The joint forum of traditional ayurveda medical practitioners has alleged that the ayurveda doctors in the State are misguiding the ayurveda medicos on a Government Order recognising traditional practitioners.
Addressing a news conference here on Monday, the Paramparya Vaidya Sanghatana Samyuktha Samithi leaders said that a Government Order issued on June 4 had recognised the traditional ayurveda practitioners above 43 years of age and who had completed five years in the field in the Malabar region.
State president of the Forum Chavasseri Chandran Vaidyan and T V Madhavan Vaidyan said that there was difference between the treatments based on ashtanga ayurveda style being taught in the Ayurveda Medical Colleges and the traditional ayurveda treatments.
Ayurveda doctors who have commercial interests are instigating the doctors and medicos to go to the streets in protest against the Government Order, they said.
They said that there was no law either in the State or in any other part of the country preventing the traditional practice of ayurveda.
The Constitution protects the traditional treatment methods and native knowledge, they said. They said that the Government Order would benefit only around 1,000 people and not 30,000, as the doctors were propagating.
They called upon the Government to implement the order as early as possible and face the pressure tactics of the doctors.
Vaidyans representing 11 organisations of traditional medical practitioners attended the news conference
