The international conference on traditional medicine for South East Asian Countries opened on Tuesday with a call to carve a common regional agenda from education to practice, from regulatory aspects research.
“Harmonized approaches based on best acceptable models existing in the region or other parts of the world could be instrumental in steering unified development of traditional medicine education, practice, regulation and progress toward mutual recognition of systems, qualifications, pharmacopoeias and other related aspects. Time has come to take up a common regional agenda for traditional medicine,” said Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, while inaugurating the two-day conference here on Tuesday.
The Minister pointed out that the South-East Asian (SEA) countries had a rich heritage of several systems of Traditional Medicine. “They have vast resources of medicinal plants and huge repositories of knowledge. Different systems of traditional medicine have been used in the South-East Asia Region (SEAR) countries for centuries. Due to this long history, the role of Traditional Medicine and its practitioners have been recognized by the governments in this region,” he said.
Addressing the inaugural session, Dr Samlee Plianbang Chang, regional director General of WHO outlined the steps to be taken for promoting the traditional medicine in SEARO countries. The conference is being organised jointly by the AYUSH Department of the Health Ministry and the WHO.
AYUSH secretary Anil Kumar arrated the huge infrastructure of AYUSH developed by Govt. of India in the country and initiatives taken by the Department in quality of AYUSH drugs and practices. He appreciated the strengths of TM in prevention and control of non communicable diseases (NCDs) and recommended for strengthening these systems by solid research.
Health Ministers from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, senior officials from different countries in the region, heads of research councils and senior practitioners of the traditional medicines were taking part in the conference.
Source:Pharmabiz
“Harmonized approaches based on best acceptable models existing in the region or other parts of the world could be instrumental in steering unified development of traditional medicine education, practice, regulation and progress toward mutual recognition of systems, qualifications, pharmacopoeias and other related aspects. Time has come to take up a common regional agenda for traditional medicine,” said Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, while inaugurating the two-day conference here on Tuesday.
The Minister pointed out that the South-East Asian (SEA) countries had a rich heritage of several systems of Traditional Medicine. “They have vast resources of medicinal plants and huge repositories of knowledge. Different systems of traditional medicine have been used in the South-East Asia Region (SEAR) countries for centuries. Due to this long history, the role of Traditional Medicine and its practitioners have been recognized by the governments in this region,” he said.
Addressing the inaugural session, Dr Samlee Plianbang Chang, regional director General of WHO outlined the steps to be taken for promoting the traditional medicine in SEARO countries. The conference is being organised jointly by the AYUSH Department of the Health Ministry and the WHO.
AYUSH secretary Anil Kumar arrated the huge infrastructure of AYUSH developed by Govt. of India in the country and initiatives taken by the Department in quality of AYUSH drugs and practices. He appreciated the strengths of TM in prevention and control of non communicable diseases (NCDs) and recommended for strengthening these systems by solid research.
Health Ministers from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, senior officials from different countries in the region, heads of research councils and senior practitioners of the traditional medicines were taking part in the conference.
Source:Pharmabiz
No comments:
Post a Comment