The fact that modern medicine or allopathy is given priority over traditional medicine forms is often a grouse heard among practitioners. It is then a welcome step that the health ministry's AYUSH (Department of Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani Siddha and Homesopathy) is slowly establishing a global footprint.
Secretary, AYUSH Anil Kumar this week unveiled plans of how the department was now leveraging with other countries to better research and popularise traditional forms of medicine. It is doing this by establishing Academic Chairs in foreign universities as well as signing memorandums of understanding with other countries.
An academic chair of traditional medicine has already been set up in a university in South Africa and similar initiatives are underway in Germany and Trinidad & Tobago. Academic exchanges of this kind are a stepping stone to more thorough and peer-reviewed research, an area in which indigenous medicine is often criticised as falling short of its allopathic counterpart.
The government has recently entered in with MOUs with Malaysia and Trinidad & Tobago. It is also in the process of signing a similar agreement with Nepal where another chair is likely to be set up.
The government has already been striving to improve research quality in local institutes. A step in this direction was taken when numerous Central Research Councils and National Institutes were given functional autonomy last year. The global expansion will offer a furtehr impetus.
Source:TNN
Secretary, AYUSH Anil Kumar this week unveiled plans of how the department was now leveraging with other countries to better research and popularise traditional forms of medicine. It is doing this by establishing Academic Chairs in foreign universities as well as signing memorandums of understanding with other countries.
An academic chair of traditional medicine has already been set up in a university in South Africa and similar initiatives are underway in Germany and Trinidad & Tobago. Academic exchanges of this kind are a stepping stone to more thorough and peer-reviewed research, an area in which indigenous medicine is often criticised as falling short of its allopathic counterpart.
The government has recently entered in with MOUs with Malaysia and Trinidad & Tobago. It is also in the process of signing a similar agreement with Nepal where another chair is likely to be set up.
The government has already been striving to improve research quality in local institutes. A step in this direction was taken when numerous Central Research Councils and National Institutes were given functional autonomy last year. The global expansion will offer a furtehr impetus.
Source:TNN
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