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that available in the Ayurvedic texts, as the tribal communities have lived in far greater
dependence on nature."
35

Dr. Pham Ngoc Thach, quoted by Agarwal, op.cit., p.58.

36

Galvez-Tan, op.cit.

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Sutherland, 1978, op.cit. At the Chiraigaon and Harahua joint clinics (Uttar Pradesh) 200
questionnaires revealed that 70.2% of patients consulting the traditional healers were educated
beyond primary school revel (against regional average for population with secondary education
of 11.8%). By contrast 68% of patients seeing allopathic staff were either illiterate or had
only primary school education. Most patients consulting the traditional healers were educated
young men, many with psychosomatic complaints.

39

WHO, National Policies and Practices in regard to Medicinal Products; and Related
International Problems, background document A/31/Technical Discussions/1,6 March 1978,
p.30.

40

Dr. D. B. Nugegoda, Department of Community Medicine University of Peradeniya,
"Cooperation and Conflict between Allopathic and Ayurvedic Systems of Therapy in Sri
Lanka", paper delivered at the Primary Health Care Symposium, Liverpool School of Tropical
Medicine, 13-16 April 1981. (mimeo)

Sutherland, op.cit.
A.C. Alexander and M .K. Shivaswany,' 'Traditional Healers in the Region of Mysore",
Social Sciences and Medicine, Pergamon Press, 1971, volume 5, pp. 595-601.

41

Agarwal, op.cit, p.57.

42

OXFAM Project File, MAH 87.

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44

Deoki Nardan et al., S. N. Medical College, Cegra, India quoted in Message from Calcutta
(Highlights of the III International Congress of the World Federation of Public Health
Associations and the XXV Annual Conference of the Indian Public Health Association
"Primary Health Care: World Strategy", 23-26 February 1981), Geneva and Washington,
1982, p.93.

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OXFAM Project File MAH 74.
Hugh Goyder, OXFAM Field Director, S. India, personal communication, 29 September
1981. (Homeopathy was started by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in Saxony in the early
nineteenth century, but spread to India where the system was culturally acceptable.)

Jackie and Tim Lusty "Report on visit to Yemen Health Projects, CIIR and Concern",
10-23 March 1980. (mimeo)
Oxfam Project write up, Yemen 15C, August 1980.
Dianna Melrose, The Great Health Robbery, OXFAM Public Affairs Unit, 1981.
Jackie and Tim Lusty, op.cit.

CHAPTER 8
1

Information on Gonoshasthaya Kendra based on research visit by the writer, September, 1980.
Also:
OXFAM Project Write-up, "Bangladesh 20", August 1978. (mimeo)
Gonoshasthaya Kendra "Progress Report", No. 7, August 1980. (mimeo)
"Gonoshasthaya Pharmaceuticals", Newsletter, undated (1981). (mimeo)
"The Paramedics of Savar: an experiment in community health in Bangladesh", Medico
Friend Circle Bulletin, 1 September 1980.
Dr. Abhay Bang "Learning from the Savar project", Medico Friend Circle Bulletin,
October 1980.

2

Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury.

3

Gonoshasthaya Kendra, "Progress Report", No. 7, op. cit.

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