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Govt to set up University of Medicines
The government is planning to set up a University of Medicines which will also carry out documentation of diseases and its treatment through various traditional practices. Union Health Minister J P Nadda said the university will be a repository of knowledge on communicable and non-communicable diseases and help broaden understanding towards traditional medicines and its benefits.
New Delhi: The government is planning to set up a University of Medicines which will also carry out documentation of diseases and its treatment through various traditional practices. Union Health Minister J P Nadda said the university will be a repository of knowledge on communicable and non-communicable diseases and help broaden understanding towards traditional medicines and its benefits.
"The government will set up a University of Medicines, which will provide a place of pride to all schools of medicines including allopathic and traditional. "This university will carry out documentation of diseases and their treatment and cure through various traditional practices," Nadda said.
"The University of Medicines will be a repository of all knowledge on communicable and non-communicable diseases and help us to broaden our understanding towards traditional medicines and its benefits," he said. Addressing the 'Stop Diabetes Movement (SDM) All India Review meeting', organised by S-Vyasa University, Bengaluru, today, Nadda said that the prevalence of lifestyle related non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and others were on the "rise" in India and it has added to the burden of already existing communicable disease.
He further said that the new institute will do research in the field of lifestyle diseases and its cure with traditional as well as allopathic medicines. Nadda said non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases are reaching epidemic proportions worldwide and India is no exception to this health catastrophe. These have become "big" challenges for the society.
He pointed out that over 6 crore people in India are affected by diabetes and there is a rising trend of it in our society. Besides, diabetes is an underlying cause of a number of other diseases such as hypertension, stroke, blindness and kidney diseases, he said.
"Yoga is an answer to this challenge. Yoga has the power and potential to change the lifestyle and it can balance lifestyle," he said. The Union Minister said that in all the new 15 AIIMS being set up by his Ministry, an AYUSH centre is planned which will provide cure through traditional practices. This will also enable mainstreaming of AYUSH, he added
