Doctors prescribing western medicine have called for Health Ministry’s intervention to formulate a policy to prevent ayurveda physicians from prescribing western medicines. Doctors pointed out that ayrurveda physicians needed to prescribe their own medicines and warned that patients who were prescribed both types of medicines could end up with adverse health implications.“It is imperative having such a policy on a national basis to maintain proper health standards,” Secretary, Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) Dr. Nalin Ariyaratne told The Nation. He further said that ayurveda physicians should also refrain from prescribing drugs used in any other disciplines of medicine such as Unani and Homoeopathy. “There are separate lists of drugs under western medicine and under ayurveda medicine. Hence doctors in one discipline of medicine should not prescribe drugs under another,” he stressed. He said that the GMOA had informed the Sri Lanka Medical Council and other relevant authorities as well on this matter and are awaiting their response.Currently four court cases have been filed by the Ayurveda Practioners’ Association requesting permission to prescribe Western drugs for various illnesses, the Nation learns. The Health Ministry must intervene and settle the matter once and for all to safeguard health standards,” GMOA sources said. They said the ayurveda system had several strategies for preventing illnesses but still had not been put into place unlike in western medicine. Source:The Nation (Sri Lanka )
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