To bring in more efficiency and transparency, the Karnataka government will soon merge the state department of Ayush with the state drugs control department. The order is expected to be issued early next week. So long, the department of Ayush was a separate entity with a dedicated workforce under the state directorate of health and family welfare.
The move which is a first in the country will bring the regulatory enforcement wing covering issue of manufacturing and marketing licenses for Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Unani and Siddha drugs under the purview of the state drugs control department which focusses on modern medicine or allopathy drugs.
Raghurama Bhandary, Karnataka drugs controller said that the effort to combine all drug licencing approvals and administration under one umbrella was the need of the hour. It would be easy to monitor every drug manufacturing and sale licensing in the state.
Karnataka minister for health and family welfare UT Khader confirmed that the there would be only one regulatory authority for both Ayush and allopathy.
In Karnataka there are 215 Ayurveda units, 10 Homeopathy and 2 Unani units.
If the Ayush department came under the purview of drugs control department, then there would be increased focus on quality standards enabling higher export earnings, he noted. [Source]
The efficiency and transparency,can only be achieved , provided the agency is well versed with the Ayush system of Medicine, for Homoeopathy they could be sent to HOMOEOPATHIC PHARMOCOEPIA LABORATORY GHAZIABAD.,