143 Ayurvedic Medical Officers join Odisha Health Services

Bhubaneswar, Oct 7: Traditional knowledge of Ayurveda along with modern healthcare system has been helpful in making our healthcare system more effective, said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik during an induction programme of Ayurvedic Medical Officers. As many as 143 Ayurvedic Medical Officers joined the state health system today at a programme organised sat State Convention Centre in Lok Seva Bhawan. The Chief Minister said that Ayurveda is an age-old knowledge of life science that has been traditionally helping millions of people in India in maintaining good health and controlling disease. Now this knowledge, along with modern healthcare system, has been revived with structured studies to help society with more effectiveness, he added. Welcoming the new medical officers to the healthcare system of the state, he asked them to follow 5T initiative to boost our transformative journey in healthcare. He said that the initiative applies the elements of Teamwork, Transparency, Technology and Time leading to Transformation.  Speaking that “Sustha Odisha, Sukhi Odisha” has been the guiding principle of his government in healthcare’ he said ‘Every Life Matters.’ He said, he has been emphasizing on this core value which every person in our healthcare system should follow. Speaking on the state’s commitment to provide universal access to quality healthcare services and bring down the out-of-pocket expenses of the people, he said that the size of the budget of the Health Department is increasing over the years. Our healthcare budget estimate has been increased to over Rs. 12 thousand Crore in the current financial year which is almost double what it was three years ago. It is more than six percent of the State Plan, he added. He hoped that joining of such a large number of Ayurvedic Medical Officers would improve the healthcare support system and result in greater satisfaction of the people.