Students at the government Nizamia Tibbi College in Charminar have been protesting for a week against a recent government notification that students and medical practitioners claim will mean the end of various traditions of alternative medicine, including Unani, Homeopathy, and Naturopathy.
According to the government order, candidates who studied Unani, Homoeopathy, or Yoga are ineligible to apply for the positions of Mid-Level Health Professionals (MLHP). It also stated that current MLHPs with the same qualifications should be relieved of their duty when their term expires.
Students claim that this move is being made to promote Ayurveda while undermining other alternative disciplines. Many practitioners of traditional disciplines, according to medical practitioners and students, will have their careers affected as a result of this.
“We have come here fairly through competitive exams,” Hajra Fatima, a final year Unani student at Government Nizamia Tibbi College, said. “We wrote NEET to come here, but we are now being sidelined,” she added.
We are protesting against the National Health Ministry’s scheme, said Dr. Zubair Alam, a house surgeon (NHM). He added that until now, ‘AYUSH’ and ‘Allopathy’ were given equal weight, and students were recruited equally, but this year those who study Unani, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, and so on are being labeled ‘ineligible’ in AYUSH, and those who work in these fields are being terminated.
Canceling other forms of alternative medicine and retaining only Ayurveda under ‘AYUSH’ is nothing more than discrimination, Dr. Zubair said.
The government took all the services from us in the last one and a half years and they are now saying that they don’t need our services, said Dr. Susherita of homeopathy, who was fired along with other colleagues.
According to a notification issued in 2021, she was appointed as a CHO under PHC Srirangavaram in Medchal, Malkajgiri district.
On Wednesday, GNTC students handed a letter to Hyderabad member of parliament Asaduddin Owaisi, who forwarded it to the union government.
Dr. Prashanti, the Telangana commissioner of AYUSH, visited the GNTC campus on Friday and informed students that the matter is not in the hands of the state government.
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