Hotch-potch medicine

Dear friends,
Thanks for the comments. The history of medical practice in India is quite complex as suggested by Dr Vijayan, We had a totally unregulated system till the British entered. Thereafter the western scientific medicine started receiving support of the governments. It was eminently successful in controlling infectious diseases. After independence, there was no proper strategy. the British medicine continued to receive state patronage. Instead of developing suitable methods of teaching and developing indigenous systems like Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha etc, they decided to blindly ape the western systems and similar colleges were started.The duration of the course was artificially fixed as 4 and half years in line with that of MBBS. The German system of homeopathy was also treated at par with our indigenous systems. The importance of research was not realized at all. The importance of research in to the merits of traditional systems was highlighted by our former president A P J Abdul kalam.
The development of modern medicine did not follow any proper plan or design either. More on this later