SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, March 31: The Jharkhand State Ayush Medical Council (JSAMC) will make a digital register for Ayush practitioners of the State at par with National Medical Commission (NMC).
Registrar of the Jharkhand State Ayush Medical Council Dr Nuzhat Sultana today issued a notification in this regard, directing the registered Ayush (Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddh, and Homeopathic) practitioners to fill up the form and submit it by April 15.
Dr Sultana has said that the filled up form of the Ayush practitioners will be forwarded to the Nation Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCIMS)/ National Council for Homeopathy for central registration at par with MBBS and BDS doctors.
At present, over 725 Ayush practitioners, including 640 contractual Ayush doctors of the National Health Mission and 72 regular doctors of the general department are registered in the state.
A senior official of the Ayush Council said that the digital register and online registration of the Ayush doctors would help in wiping out the alleged corruption in the State Ayush Medical Council. The official said that at present, on the register registration system, sometimes doctors complain that their application was held up in the office and those who applied after them get registered first on omission and commission.
The digital register would also help check quacks spread across the state and partition the fake certificate.
The Jharkhand State Ayush Doctors Association has highly appreciated the step of the JSAMC and said that online registration will save time and money for Ayush doctors.
“At present the Ayush practitioners of faraway districts have to go to the Ranchi Council office for registration. But in the digital register, they will be able to file it from their houses,” said Dr Girdhari, the state president of JSADA.
Dr Girdhari said that the association will also raise its old demand again for the regularization of 640 contractual doctors on the pattern of contractual MBBS doctors regularized by the government in 2013.
“We gave several memorandums to the health department, additional chief secretary, health minister and even met Chief Minister Hemant Soren for regularization of doctors who have been working for eight to nine years but got only assurance in return,” said Dr Girdhari.
He said that the government has issued vacancies for over 424 posts of Ayush doctors but the seniority of doctors, who have been working for years, has not been considered yet.
