Badal calls for popularising alternative medicinal system

Addressing a public gathering at the launch of four-day 'Arogya Mela', jointly organised by the Centre and state Ayush Department in collaboration with FICCI, state Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said that the Ayush system especially Ayurveda had comparatively lesser side effects than Allopathy and was also cost effective.

He emphasised the need to intensify efforts for undertaking research in Ayurveda so that complicated diseases like cancer, hepatitis and cardiac ailments could also be effectively cured.

Appreciating the efforts of the state Ayush department to hold this medical camp-cum-exhibition, Badal asked the doctors to ensure proper follow up in the cases of patients who were diagnosed with serious ailments.