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Need to promote preventive healthcare clinics: Sawant

Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday asked healthcare practitioners to set up clinics to offer ayurveda services as preventive care. 'An ordinary man pays a dietician Rs 50,000 for six months just to make changes in the diet. This has become a practice. If the dietician can charge Rs 50,000 for a routine consultation in diets, we can open preventive healthcare centres and help promote healthy ideas such as 'Dinacharya' and 'Ritucharya' as prescribed in ayurveda,' said the CM at an event organised by the Goa Council of Ayurveda and Other Allied Systems of Medicine. He said the ayurveda practitioners must think about selling the benefits of the ayurveda system to the people rather than just practicing. 'Through the preventive healthcare clinic, we can spread the practice of ayurveda to patients and common people,' he said. 'We can establish a way of how ayurveda can be sold in the market. From 'Prakriti Parishram', we can assess the lifestyle of an individual and chalk out a diet chart. Just like a dietician, we can also map the dietary history and guide them with precision, as mentioned in 'Dinacharya'. All we need to do is start practicing it,' Sawant added. The chief minister said the recent collaboration with Tata Memorial Hospitals to assess and examine the effectiveness of ayurveda as a treatment will help gain an understanding of ayurvedic medicine for the next 50 years. He also said that the next efforts should be to expand our knowledge and skills to accentuate the practice of ayurveda. Get the latest lifestyle updates on Times of India, along with Doctor's Day 2025 , messages and quotes!