Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 7: Indigenous Medicines Organizations (IMO), Jammu has demanded separate Directorate for Jammu.
The demand was raised during a meeting of the Association held here today under chairmanship of Dr KK Kapoor, vice-president of the Association. Speaking in the meeting, Dr Kapoor said that after long struggle a separate Directorate of ISM&H was created in the year 1987 separating it from Allopathic department.
He said as on today, there are total no of 504 dispensaries in ISM&H department. Out of these 504, 272 are Ayurvedic and 4 posts of MOs are in Government Ayurvedic Hospital Jammu while 32 Unani Dispensaries are in Jammu Division and 28 Ayurvedic Dispensaries are in Kashmir Division.
Dr Kapoor said that 90% posts of Medical Officers in the district of Doda, Ramban, Kishatwar, Rajouri and Poonch are consumed by posting Unani doctors against the posts of Ayurvedic Medical Officers in Government Ayurvedic Dispensaries. “Nevertheless 7 Unani doctors are posted in Jammu district whereas there is only one post of MO Unani. On the contrary only a few Ayurvedic doctors are posted in Kashmir Division against the 28 posts of Ayurvedic Medical Officers,” he added.
Dr Khajan Singh, chairman of IMO said that Ayurved is a well developed 5000 years old system of medicine being discriminated in the hands of religiously poisoned officers in administration. “In 1987 when ISM department was separated from Health Department, a Unani doctors was made Director superseding the Ayurvedic doctor. Under a well designed strategy the nomenclature of posts as well as dispensary is being changed from Ayurvedic or Unani Dispensary to ISM dispensary and by this Ayurvedic posts and dispensaries are being converted to Unani,” he alleged.
“During the Darbar move, the Directorate of ISM also moves to Kashmir thereby resulting in difficulty or almost impossible for the HoDs to supervise the functioning of the dispensaries in the Jammu division,” he said and demanded bifurcation of ISM department.
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