Allied Health Science is a new established concept in health care
and constitutes a separate stream of health professionals contributing to
the health-care. Allied health professionals are an integral part of the
medical team along with physicians and nurses contributing their expertise
to the preventive, curative and rehabilitative care of the patients.
Allied Health practitioners/ professionals significantly influence
healthcare delivery by supp-orting, facilitating and complementing the
roles of physicians and other health care specialists. The term 'Allied
Health' is used to identify a cluster of health professions and covers as
many as 100 occupational titles, exclusive of physicians, nurses and a
handful of others.