Section 5(a) in The West Bengal University of Health Sciences Act, 2002
(a)to establish uniformity in standards of education in all Faculties of Health Sciences including Modern System of Medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, various paramedical and paradental disciplines such as medical laboratory technology, physiotherapy, speech therapy. Ayurvedic, Unani and Homoeopathic Systems of Medicine, with a view to augmenting and enhancing the quality of such education and consistently aiming at modernizing, improving and achieving the highest standards of academic excellence at all levels on mutual understanding of all the systems of Health Sciences;
