TN to get third siddha college in Palani by June
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Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government will start its third siddha medical college at Palani in Dindigul by June, health minister C Vijaya Baskar said here on Friday. With this, the number of bachelor of siddha medicine and surgery (BSMS) seats in the state will go up by 60.
Tamil Nadu has two siddha colleges — in Chennai (60 undergraduate seats) and Palayamkottai (100 seats) — besides four other colleges in homeopathy (Tirumangalam, Madurai), ayurveda (Kottar, Nagercoil), unani (Chennai) and yoga and naturopathy (Chennai). Besides this, the state has 23 self-financing Ayush colleges, including seven in siddha, four in ayurveda and nine in homeopathy.
“We will be starting 50-bed integrated Ayush hospitals in Tiruvanamalai and Theni at a cost of ₹7.33 crore,” the minister said at World Congress on Holistic Health organised by the Tamil Nadu Dr M G R Medical University. Quoting a story on how Mahatma Gandhi started believing in allopathic medicine after an appendectomy, TN governor Banwarilal Purohit, also the chancellor of the university, said it was necessary to create a new model for health and healing keeping the patients at the core of treatment without being fixated on a single system of medicine.
Manisha B
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government will start its third siddha medical college at Palani in Dindigul by June, health minister C Vijaya Baskar said here on Friday. With this, the number of bachelor of siddha medicine and surgery (BSMS) seats in the state will go up by 60.
Tamil Nadu has two siddha colleges — in Chennai (60 undergraduate seats) and Palayamkottai (100 seats) — besides four other colleges in homeopathy (Tirumangalam, Madurai), ayurveda (Kottar, Nagercoil), unani (Chennai) and yoga and naturopathy (Chennai). Besides this, the state has 23 self-financing Ayush colleges, including seven in siddha, four in ayurveda and nine in homeopathy.
“We will be starting 50-bed integrated Ayush hospitals in Tiruvanamalai and Theni at a cost of ₹7.33 crore,” the minister said at World Congress on Holistic Health organised by the Tamil Nadu Dr M G R Medical University. Quoting a story on how Mahatma Gandhi started believing in allopathic medicine after an appendectomy, TN governor Banwarilal Purohit, also the chancellor of the university, said it was necessary to create a new model for health and healing keeping the patients at the core of treatment without being fixated on a single system of medicine.
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