Global Centre for traditional medicine in India could be game-changer: WHO
Date
4/19/2022 7:11:26 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
With India set to establish WHO Global Centre for traditional
medicine in Jamnagar, Gujarat, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional
Director, WHO South-East Asia Region has called it a
'game-changer.'
Traditional medicines, she said have been around for millennia
and pointed out that nearly 80 per cent of people, in 170 of 194
WHO member countries use them.
'Despite their widespread use, traditional medicine lack robust
evidence, data and a standard framework preventing their
integration into the mainstream healthcare delivery system,' Dr
Singh said in an exclusive interview with ANI.
'WHOs Global Centre for traditional medicine could be a
game-changer by focusing on evidence and learning, data and
analytics, sustainability and equity, innovation and technology to
help harness the ancient wisdom and power of traditional medicine,
and to advance the SDG 3 target of ensuring health and promoting
wellbeing for all of all ages,' she added.
Dr Singh said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to
Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros
Ghebreyesus and expressed India's keenness in establishing and
hosting the GCTM in India so as to harness the potential of
traditional medicine from across the world through modern science
and technology to improve the health of people and the planet.
The Government of India last month signed the 'Host Country
Agreement' with WHO for establishing WHO Global Centre for
Traditional Medicine in India at Jamnagar, Gujarat, with its
interim office at the Institute of Training and Research in
Ayurveda in Gujarat. 'Indian Government has generously agreed to
support the setting up of the GCTM and its activities for the first
ten years,' Dr Singh said.
Noting that the COVID-19 pandemic is stretching and impacting
the health systems across the world, Dr Singh pointed out many
countries felt the need to mobilize all available resources to
recover from the pandemic and accelerate progress towards SDG 3
goals.
'The emerging burden of NCDs and mental illnesses have also
created a demand for integrating evidence-based traditional
medicine into the healthcare delivery system to promote health and
wellbeing,' she said.
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