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Dr. Seyiekhrietuo John speaking at the symposium for holistic health at ICFAI University.[/caption]
Eastern Mirror Desk
Dimapur, April 10: State program officer, Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Seyiekhrietuo John has informed that the Ministry of AYUSH has established a fully functional with manpower and 10 bedded hospital in Dimapur and another 50 bedded hospital in the districts of Dimapur, Kohima and Mokokchung will be inaugurated in two to three months.
The proposal, he said is as per the guidelines of the ministry that every district will have AYUSH hospital.
John is one of the resource persons of the symposium for holistic health programme, organised by Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) in commemoration of the 263rd birth anniversary of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann at the university premises in Sovima in Dimapur.
By next year, he informed that all district headquarters will be completed with Community Health Centres (CHC).
John highlighted the main aims of the ministry of AYUSH which stands for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy. He said its primary focus was to promote AYUSH medicinal systems across the country, to strengthen educational systems, to facilitate the quality of AYUSH tags. In order to implement the objectives of AYUSH, he added that the Ministry of AYUSH has given authority to every state to form a society headed by the chief secretary and commissioner secretary.
Apart from setting up the hospitals and centres, John also informed that there are plans to set up a medicinal plant and aromatic plant research centre in the state while adding that an ayurveda research centre was already present at Nagaland University, Lumami campus but was “not functioning properly” and is in plan to shift to Dimapur.
Another resource person for the ymposium, Dr. Ruusietuonuo, medical officer –AYUSH, CHC, Peren spoke on the principles of Ayush and the doctrine of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann of “like cures like” (similia similibus curentur), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people.
Homeopathy doctors from all over Dimapur attended the health camp that was conducted after the programme.
