Plans to popularize homeopathic treatment services.
The Minister of Health and Mass Media says that no matter how many institutions and medical systems are maintained, the ultimate goal of every department and medical system should be to keep the citizen healthy.
The Minister of Health and Mass Media, Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa, made these comments while addressing a meeting attended by the staff of the hospital and the representatives of the Homeopathic Medical Council after an inspection tour of Welisara Homeopathic Hospital, the only homeopathic hospital owned by the government.
Creating a healthy population
Welisara Government Homeopathic Hospital aims to create a healthy population for all children’s and women’s diseases, asthma and respiratory disorders, skin diseases, stomach diseases, neurological diseases, chronic headaches, gout, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol conditions, joint disorders and arthritis. Daily treatment is provided for diseases. The hospital also conducts many active programs to popularize the homeopathic medicine system as an easy and profitable medical method to alleviate and prevent diseases at a low cost to all the people of this country.
The Homeopathic Medical Council is the only medical body for homeopathy, and it carries out registration of doctors, compounders and nurses, regulation of homeopathic establishments, manufacture, import, storage, sale and regulation of medicines, monitoring of homeopathic establishments and medical centers. 14 clinics are also operated throughout the island by the Homeopathic Medical Council
More than 200 years of ancient history.
The Minister of Health and Media investigated the current status of homeopathic medical treatment in Sri Lanka, which is a medical system with an ancient history of more than 200 years and was the most popular medical system in the world apart from Western medicine, and the future goals of homeopathic medical treatment services in Sri Lanka. , Outpatient of Welisara Homeopathic Hospital The minister also observed the treatment services including the patient ward, inpatient treatment wards, drug store.
About 200 patients are treated daily by the outpatient department of the Homeopathy Hospital in Welisara, and the inpatient department operates 24 hours a day.
Taking this situation into consideration, the minister further said that plans are being made to promote this homeopathic medical treatment method in Sri Lanka, which has the ability to cure diseases without any side effects. Also, the Minister emphasized to the staff of the Homeopathic Hospital and the Homeopathic Medical Council that regardless of how many institutions and medical systems are maintained, the ultimate goal of every department should be to keep the citizen healthy.
Filling of staff vacancies, provision of adequate stock of medicines for medical clinics and mobile clinics, establishment of laboratory service, strengthening of treatment services in the outpatient department, upgrading of the inpatient department to a 50-bed residential department, complementary medical services, medical laboratory service, Establishment of x-ray and physiotherapy services and counseling departments, upgrading to a teaching hospital, etc. A very long discussion took place between the hospital staff and the minister to prepare future plans for this year.
Future goals.
The officers including the President of the Homeopathic Medical Council have set as their future goals the establishment of a homeopathic medical college in the country, the production of homeopathic medicines in the country, the establishment of homeopathic hospitals covering every province, the establishment of government homeopathic clinics covering every district and the development of human resources in the field. Points pointed out. In the future, the minister gave instructions to the medical council to look into the possibility of sending more students from Sri Lanka to homeopathic medical colleges in India to develop the homeopathic medical course.
Bringing tourists to the country.
Under the current government’s program to bring tourists to Sri Lanka by improving the factors unique to Sri Lanka, health and medical methods such as homeopathy can also attract tourists, providing necessary facilities and implementing suggestions given by experts in the field to develop such medical treatment fields under a national plan. The minister also said that he will work on it.
The hospital staff including Mrs. Chandani Herath, the medical officer in charge of the Welisara Homeopathic Hospital, Dr. Ashan Nilanka Dunukara, the chairman of the Homeopathic Medical Council, members of the medical council and homeopathic doctors were present on this occasion.