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| Advertisements for treatment banned |
| Proposal will be submitted soon, says Anbumani
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| INDIA
, 23-January-2007
4:28:34 AM |
| The Union Health Ministry intends to ban advertisement of treatment processes under the Drugs and Magical Remedies Act.
A proposal to this effect will be drafted by the Ministry soon, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has said.
This would require amendments to the Act, which had hitherto prohibited only advertisement of drugs or `magical cures' for certain diseases.
This move follows the controversy late last year after the Ministry sent a notice to the yoga Guru Baba Ramdev questioning his claims of curing cancer and HIV/AIDS. The amendment would seek to curb these kinds of advertisements, promising cures through allopathy or alternative systems of medicine, he said in an interview to The Hindu .
The Ministry, along with the Surface Transport Ministry, intends to build trauma care centres along national highways, he said. The plan was to provide a phone booth every five km, a basic trauma centre every 100 km, establish a speciality trauma centre every 300 km and a superspeciality trauma centre every 500 km.
Mapping of national highways was on and the Ministry identified government establishments that could be part of the large network on the Golden Quadrilateral route. The project, expected to cost between Rs.1,000-2,000 crore, would also involve training of staff of ambulances and hospitals along the routes in emergency medicine.
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