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Dr. Hakim Syed
Khalifatullah, Vice-President of CCIM (Central Council of
Indian Medicine, New Delhi) addressing the
conference in Malegaon
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Conference ended with an assertion for hosting an
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The conference ended on March 09 at 06:30
in the evening with an assertion by Arshad Mukhtar, the secretary of
Mohammadia Tibbia College for hosting an International conference on Unani
medicine. “The success of the conference has motivated us to prepare for
an International Conference in our campus”, he said while addressing the
valedictory session. More than 250 scholars from various Unani
medical colleges of the country presented their papers in this two-day
conference and over 500 delegates, including the students and internees
participated from all across the country. Prominent among them were Prof
Anees Ansari, Hkm Shafakkat Azmi, Dr. Ferha Naaz, Arshad Pathan, Dr. Qamar
Jahan and Dr. Gazala.
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Malegaon: "Health is not the subject of the
Central Government alone. Nor of the State Government. It is in fact
a concurrent matter and we all have to share the responsibility for
a better public health system in the country”, noted Dr. Hakim Syed
Khalifatullah, Vice-President of CCIM (Central Council of Indian
Medicine, New Delhi) while inaugurating the two-day National
Conference on Unani Medicine. The conference was held at Mohammadia
Tibbia College, Mansoora in Malegaon on March 8th & 9th, 2008.
The veteran Unani expert Dr.
Khalifatullah, who has the privilege of working as the physician for
President R. Venkat Raman along with holding various distinguished
positions, praised the management of the college for holding this
conference. Recalling the vision of the college founder Maulana
Mukhtar Ah Nadvi-an internationally acclaimed Islamic Scholar who
died few months before this conference, Dr. Khalifatullah said,
“Providing up to the mark infrastructure in Unani Medical Colleges
has really become a challenge. Maulana Mukhtar had always dreamt for
a state-of-the-art Unani Medical College and today what we see at
Mohammadia Tibbia College is the efforts of the Maulana and his
friends who vigorously worked for achieving their goal.”
Confident that the conference would
play a major role in developing newer ideas to combat the challenges
facing the Unani medicine, S. H. Fugare-Registrar of MUHS
(Maharashtra University of Health Science) asserted the need for a
renewed commitment for the revival of the Unani system. He said,
“Despite having its roots in India, Unani Medicine System suffered
because it didn’t have Government patronage during the British rule.
But the commitments of Hakims like Ajmal Khan helped the system to
survive.”
Stating that we are lagging behind in
manufacturing of the Unani drugs, Dr. S. A. Pasha, Deputy Director
Department of AYUSH (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of
India) observed, “When Ayurvedic medicines worth millions of rupees
are being exported from India, it is almost zero in case of Unani
medicines”, adding, “The reason is we don’t have enough
manufacturers.”
While veteran pharmacologist Dr. Yusuf
Amin stressed on the need for scientifically validating the Unani
medicines using the emerging inventions, Scientist and Asst. Proctor
at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Prof Naeem Ah Khan said, “We are
certainly on the verge of a renaissance. Though to the smaller
scale, scientific validation of the Unani medicines has actually
begun.”
The inaugural function ended with the
closing remarks by Arshad Mukhtar, the patron of the conference,
urging the participants to work for becoming the best. “Organizing a
conference is not a big deal. The important thing is to put the
ideas into actions”, he said.
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