Welfare association for ayurvedic physicians

A welfare association for ayurvedic physicians in the Anuradhapura district is to be set up shortly.

North Central Province Chief Minister S M Ranjith Samarakoon who mooted this idea when he attended a felicitation ceremony for Ayurveda Physicians at the Anuradhapura Swarnasheeli Balika Vidyalaya hall, also promised to donate Rs 200,000 from the Chief Minister’s fund as a nucleus for a welfare fund for physicians to be handled by the association.

The chief minister said the late Prime Minister S W R D Bandaranayake gave special recognition to the ayurveda physicians by rallying them to the fivefold forces which ensured the 1956 people’s victory.

Thereafter, President Mahinda Rajapaksa implemented several programmes to uplift ayurveda physicians after he assumed power in 2005.

Provincial Health Minister S B Semasinghe is ably shouldering the responsibility of implementing these programmes in the NCP in his capacity as the Provincial Health Minister. Provincial Health Minister Semasinghe said he has taken steps to ensure a qualitative development of all ayurveda hospitals and dispensaries in the Province.