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are two aided colleges, 11 self financing colleges and a self-financing Siddha college for imparting SOCIAL SERVICE
Ayurveda medical education. Annual intake of students for UG Degree is 800 and PG Degree is 127.

HOMOEOPATHY

4.107 There are 660 homeopathic dispensaries and 33 hospitals with total bed strength of 975
under Homoeopathy department in the State. In addition, Kerala State Homoeopathic Co-operative
pharmacy (HOMCO) Alappuzha, a medicine manufacturing unit is also functioning under the
Directorate of Homeopathy. District wise distribution of institutions, beds and patients treated
under Homoeopathic Department during 2013 & 2014 is given in Appendix 4.61. Homoeo Medical
Education is imparted through two Govt. Homoeopathic Medical Colleges, at Thiruvananthapuram
and Kozhikode. Annual intake of students and courses in Homoeo Medical Colleges are given in
Appendix 4.62.

Box 4.8

Major Achievements of Homoeopathy Department during 2014

• Comprehensive quality health care service
• Pain and cancer palliative care services
• Epidemic Control & Prevention by Rapid Action Epidemic Control Cell in Homoeopathy
• AYUSH Holistic Health Care for prevention & management of life style diseases.
• Adolescent health care & behavioral management (SADGAMAYA)
• Solace for suffering womenfolk through ‘Seethalayam’
• Healthy mother and happy child campaign activities
• Geriatric care services
• Special clinics for infertility & de-addiction centres to correct substance abuse
• Specialty clinics for endocrine disorders
• Mobile / floating Homoeopathic health care services

Directorate of Homoeopathy

Immunization Coverage

4.108 Immunization is one of the most successful and cost effective health intervention and prevents
debilitating illness, disability and death from vaccine –preventable diseases such as diphtheria,
hepatitis A and B, measles, mumps, pneumococcal disease ,polio, rotavirus diarrhoea, tetanus etc.
The coverage of immunisation programmes in Kerala during five years from 2010-11 is given in
Appendix 4.63.

Section 4
Social Security and Welfare

4.109 Providing social security to the vulnerable groups of the society is the duty of any Democratic
Government. Kerala has several achievements in introducing social security measures to these
groups. In the State, the Social Justice Department is the nodal department involved in addressing
the problems of social security and welfare by designing schemes for the socio-economic and
educational upliftment and development of the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of the
society. The departments and agencies stands for social security and their major activities and
services were given in Economic Review, 2013 (www.spb.kerala.gov.in).

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