If we look at the journey of COVID 19 from its supposedly birth place China to many European countries and USA giving a clear miss to India, we must thank the Swacch Bharat mission and various path breaking initiatives of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, since 2014. Had there been no such health awareness as created by PM Modi, COVID 19 would have found India its last and only destination.
A clean India, healthy India, rich India, developed India, India that guide the world and finally how to make the great Indian tradition- Hinduism and its doctrines to help the world remain healthy and happy were the objectives of Modiji’s Swacch bharat mission.
Besides that PM Modi really transformed the life of millions and millions of poor people by providing cooking gas connection, building toilets, providing drinking water facility, electrification etc. In Toto, the Swacch Bharat mission has brought the importance of personal and public hygiene to remain healthy and to prevent the spread of most diseases.
The COVID 19 dared to enter India because of the health and hygiene awareness created by Modi through Swacch bharat mission. Considering the dense population matrix of people in India, COVID 19 would have found India a safe haven like how the black money holders have slashed their black money in many foreign banks as the law of those countries are treated as safe haven for black and ill-gotten money.
Compared to many of our neighbouring countries, the spread, incidence and mortality rate due to COVID 19 in India is very insignificant thanks to the heightened health and hygiene awareness of people of India. The person who catalized all such changes and transformations is Modi, our dear Prime Minister who started Swacch bharat mission to fulfil the dreams of Mahatma Gandhi.
From YOGA to Namaste, the world has started to follow our great Hinduism. Our ancient healing practices has lots to offer to humanity remain healthy but the Ministry of AYUSH still follows the old school approach of promoting AYUSH as medical science and so are its products drugs.
AYUSH must be promoted for positive health and post treatment management purposes so that AYUSH will be accepted as a wonderful paramedical practice. The rampant cross pathy by several institutionally qualified AYUSH vaid in private practice; especially in Tamil Nadu by some institutionally qualified Siddha vaid in private practice is destroying the credence of AYUSH.
Like how the Swacch bharat initiatives that has transformed India and helped us to contain COVID 19, central government under Modi must take initiatives to end cross pathy by AYUSH vaidya in private practice and must declare AYUSH as pre-medical, post treatment care, paramedical practice. Similarly all herb based AYUSH products must be declared as extension of value added food supplements and allied products; making the law liberal and lucid for manufacturing and marketing all such products.
AYUSH must be empowered to address the paramedical needs in our health care delivery system instead of promoting AYUSH as medical science. Our country cannot have two separate species of doctor one from faith based stream called AYUSH vaid and the other being scientifically proven allopathic doctor. If AYUSH is declared as healing practice where the vaid can offer mind healing, spiritual healing, YOGA, moral science, diet restriction, palmistry, astrology and philosophical reconciliation to deal the disease etc., the AYUSH would serve the humanity better.
The goal of our health and medical mission should be to make our country disease free, healthy and happy where the allopathic system would address the task of treating the diseases and the AYUSH would address the other two objectives such as wellness and paramedical service. But today the cross pathy by some AYUSH vaid in private practice is not only destroying AYUSH but also causing medication health fraud and medical chaos.
While thanking Modi for transforming India through Swacch bharat mission and dare COVID 19 to enter into India so easily, we also needs to remind and request Modi to make AYUSH more relevant and appropriate by declaring it exclusively for health and paramedical benefits and enacting a firm law against cross pathy.
