Department of Homeopathy
The national campaign on “Homoeopathy for Mother and Child Care” was launched by the department of AYUSH, GOI in 2007. Pursuant to this, state level campaign was launched in Delhi on 24/09/2009 by Smt.Sheila Dikshit, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi and Prof.Kiran Walia,Hon’ble Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of NCT of Delhi. The program was attended by Sh J.P.Singh, Principal Secretary(Health & family Welfare , GNCTD, Prof.C.Nayak, Director General, CCRH and other dignitaries.
The campaign was designed to increase the awareness of potential role of homoeopathy in ‘Mother and Child Health’ care and involved sensitization of policy makers and practitioners of different medical systems. For this purpose orientation workshops were conducted at state and district levels. Training was conducted on ‘Train the Trainer’ modality at state level. Five district level workshops for capacity building of practicing Homoeopaths, practicing in public and private sector, including NGOs, were also conducted in the concerned five districts. This was supported by various other IEC activities.
This campaign helped in bridging the gap between theoretical & practical knowledge, increase coordination between homoeopaths and allopaths & promoted experience sharing. This shall go a long way in reducing MMR and IMR in Delhi.