Tripura awarded for tele-homoeopathy
November 23rd, 2011 - 5:24 pm ICT by IANSAgartala, Nov 23 (IANS) Tripura has become the only state in eastern India to receive an international award for tele-homoeopathy, where patients in rural areas are diagnosed by doctors through video-conferencing, a minister said here Wednesday.
“Tripura recently received the international award at the Health World Expo-2011 in New Delhi for successful implementation of THTM (tele-homeopathy treatment method),” state Health Minister Tapan Chakraborty told reporters.
“The tele-homoeopathy treatment project was launched in Tripura in February last year and so far 21,550 rural people, 60 percent of them women, have been treated,” the minister added.
The project was initiated in different parts of the country by the Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) department under the union ministry of health and family welfare.
Patients and doctors sitting in different places, including Kolkata and Delhi, can interact with each other through the THTM.
He said that the medicines are provided free of cost to the patients.
Chakraborty said tele-homoeopathy facilities have been extended in ten rural locations in Tripura following an agreement between Tripura government, Kolkata-based National Institute of Homoeopathy and private firm Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (IL&FS;).
“Patients of polyarthritis, women’s gynaecological disorders, anaemia, pregnancy-related diseases, acute and chronic respiratory disease, gastro-intestinal diseases, geriatric problems, skin disorder, and communicable diseases have found exceptional results through the THTM,” the minister added.
- Karnataka to provide Indian medicine at hospitals - Feb 10, 2012
- Karnataka to set up yoga and naturopathy council - Feb 12, 2012
- Quality certificate for ayurvedic medicines - Aug 30, 2011
- Ayurveda, unani to be promoted through rural health scheme - Feb 10, 2012
- Indian systems of medicine to be mainstreamed - Apr 09, 2010
- Standards for AYUSH medical colleges to be raised - May 10, 2011
- Himalayan treatment listed in traditional medicine system - Aug 25, 2010
- Panel slams rural health scheme implementation - Mar 24, 2011
- Homeopathic drug may prevent swine flu - Jul 10, 2010
- India wins patent dispute against China for flu medicine - Aug 06, 2010
- Rs.9.2 bn to promote Indian systems of medicine - Nov 20, 2009
- Recognise hospitals practising alternative systems: Homeopathic Congress - Dec 19, 2010
- Indian traditional medicine gets pharmacopoeia commission (Lead) - May 13, 2010
- 'Fast-track mode work for 264 backward districts' - Apr 11, 2012
- Pharmacopoeia commission for traditional medicine approved - May 13, 2010
Tags: agartala, chakraborty, chronic respiratory disease, communicable diseases, eastern india, gastro intestinal diseases, gynaecological disorders, health minister, health world, homeopathy treatment, homoeopathy treatment, ministry of health, ministry of health and family welfare, naturopathy, private firm, siddha, skin disorder, tapan, union ministry, world expo