The Haryana government aims to promote traditional remedies and integrate them into the daily lives of the people (Representational image/PTI)
According to Vij, the ultimate goal of medical education should be to relieve and cure the patient. Consequently, Ayurveda and allopathy should be mixed and used as per the requirement.
The Haryana government is trying to make Ayurvedic education compulsory in the fifth year for MBBS students. Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij has set up teams to develop and prepare a course curriculum for teaching Ayurveda to medical students.
Although the announcement drew criticism, the minister defended the decision, arguing that all medical systems should be integrated. According to Vij, the ultimate goal of medical education should be to relieve and cure the patient. Consequently, Ayurveda and allopathy should be mixed and used as per the requirement. The additional objective of the government is to promote traditional remedies and integrate them into the daily lives of the people.
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While Ayurveda is a naturopathic system of medicine that has its roots in India, it is not a major component of the MBBS curriculum. The MBBS curriculum is based on modern, allopathic, or traditional, western medicine. Criticizing the decision, Dr. Dinesh Sanduja, Organizing Secretary of the Indian Medical Association for the state of Haryana, told a leading news daily that though the Ayurveda branch of medicine is a flourishing field, it is not advisable to include it in the traditional MBBS curriculum. Is given.
“Instead of making teaching of Ayurveda mandatory for the entire fifth year of MBBS, some relevant sections of Physiology and Anatomy branches which are common to both Allopathy and Ayurveda branches can be taught to the students,” Sanduja pointed out.
He also mentioned that if students spend their entire fifth year studying Ayurveda, their academic merit will be lost as they will not have a critical understanding of the aspects taught in the fifth year of MBBS course.
The Haryana government intends to set up a hybrid model of medical education in the state, which could have a serious impact on the quality of medical education imparted to the students. Sanduja said, “If the government wants to promote Ayurvedic medicines, Ayurveda doctors should prescribe only Ayurvedic medicines and avoid prescribing allopathic medicines.”
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