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Minister assures Kerala Ayurveda community to consider separate drugs control administration for Ayurveda
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Peethaambaran Kunnathoor, Chennai
February 19 , 2019
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The Kerala Education Minister, Prof. C Ravindranath, has assured the
Ayurveda doctors and the Ayurveda drug manufacturers of the state that
he will take up with the state government the long-pending demand of the
stakeholders for a separate drugs control administration (DCA) for
Ayurveda department.
The minister also promised that he would
discuss the issue with the health minister and try to bring it before
the government for immediate solution. Presently, the Ayurveda DCA is
controlled by modern medicine drugs control department.
Similarly,
he will hold discussion with the agriculture minister and other
concerned ministries for the cultivators of medicinal plants to avail
subsidies through different schemes. He said this while addressing the
Ayurveda manufacturers of Kerala at their 8th state conference in Kochi.
Although
demand for a regular drugs controller for Ayurveda has been there for
several years, no positive step has been taken by the state health
ministry to appoint one DC. Ever since the department of Ayurveda was
formed in August 2015, the control of the Indian medicines is still kept
by the allopathic drugs controller. The regulators of the modern
medicines do have little knowledge about Indian traditional drugs and
the systems of treatment.
Sources from the department said, the
major hurdle for appointing a regular DC for Ayurveda is promotional
issues raised by the drug inspectors in the Ayurveda department which
actually lacks officers with sufficient experience and qualifications.
So, the government is recruiting efficient and well-qualified
academicians to the post of SLA on deputation. Currently, Dr. Sreekumar,
who was selected from Government Ayurveda College in Thripunithura, is
the in-charge deputy drugs controller.
According to industry
sources, with no independent drugs control administration (DCA) under
ayush, managed either by a director or drugs controller, the department
of ayush, cannot function in full swing. Besides, in the absence of such
a head-of-office, the ayush department cannot fetch the desired result
from the Ayurveda sector in Kerala. They want the government to delink
the drugs control administration of Ayurveda from allopathy.
The
general secretary of Ayurveda Medicine Manufacturers’ Organisation of
India (AMMOI), Dr. D. Ramanathan, has submitted one memorandum to the
minister seeking de-linking of Ayurveda drugs control administration
from allopathy DCA.
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