Ayurveda best gift to the world
Indigenous Medicine Minister Salinda Dissanayaka said we have the
responsibility to convert Ayurvedic medicine system to the main medical
system of the country.
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A pupil nurse receives an appointment letter from the
Minister of Indigenous Medicine Salinda Dissanayaka. |
"The best gift we can give the world is the method of Ayurvedic
medicine to treat patients who are fed up with Western medicine," the
Minister said.
He was addressing nurses at a ceremony to hand over appointment
letters to 40 Ayurvedic pupil nurses at the National Institute of
Traditional Medicine yesterday.
Minister Dissanayaka said that several Ayurvedic Hospitals around the
country face a nurses shortage. Appointment letters were given to 40
Ayurvedic pupil nurses at the ceremony. Thirty pupil nurses received
appointment letters in 2008.
Indigenous Medicine Ministry Additional Secretary Mallika Ekanayake
said the Ministry is faced with problems due to shortcoming in the
nursing service including training facilities.
Some nurses from the Government Hospitals have been deployed to the
Ayurvedic Hospitals during the past several years but it did not bring
required results, he said.
Selected Ayurvedic pupil nurses were given an opportunity to train at
the Government Nursing school at Kadana following which they will be
attached to the Ayurvedic Hospitals. |
