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-- HEALTHCARE --
| Objective |
Programatic Steps
to Achieve |
| Low Cost Treatment |
- Establish dedicated siddha hospital
to deliver affordable treatment
- Kitchen herbal gardens
- Provides low cost medicines - ready -
made - through the company - Sanjeevini
|
| Accessible Treatment |
- Provide in-patient and out-patient facility - in-home
visits, field visits for those unable to come to hospital
- Mobile clinic - visiting all villages - demonstrations
medicinal preparations - selling medicine
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| HIV/AIDS Elimination |
- In hospital and community outreach programs to stop the
spread of HIV/ AIDS and to treat those already affected
- Education
- Prevention: distribution + encouraged use of oils - and
possibly condoms
- Counseling
- Treatment + Testing
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-- EDUCATION --
| Objective |
Programatic Steps
to Achieve |
| Siddha Training |
- Identify local healers and provide training in Gandeepam
methods
|
| Siddha Education |
- Establish herbarium to serve as centralized / single source
of all medicinal plants collected within the district.
- Establish museum to educate the public on medicinal plant
identification, treatment preparations and case studies
demonstrating the success of Siddha.
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| Knowledge Repository |
- Serve as a centralized / single source of knowledge and
house a library
- registered medicinal plants
- unregistered flora used by traditional healers
- Document all flora and practices
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-- Medicinal Plant Production --
| Objective |
Programatic Steps
to Achieve |
| Medicinal Plant Production |
Dedicate land to medicinal plant production
and ensure sufficient supply of key species:
-Cultivation -Storage -Collection -Garden
Maintenance -Preparation/Cleaning - Collection
from the wild environment
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| Economic Welfare |
- Train leaders of self help groups, particularly
women and farmers, to understand and contribute to medicinal
plant production
- Employ such groups for all stages of
medicinal plants production
- Kitchen herbal gardens:- for supplemental
income and home remedies / family use
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