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New Delhi:
Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad speaking in a seminar
on July 28 emphasized the need to link employment opportunities with the Indian
Medicine system to make it popular.
"Indian system of medicines will
become popular only when it is linked with employment opportunities
for people", he said while speaking at the seminar on ‘Scenario of
Indian system of Medicine and Medicinal Plantation'.
The seminar was jointly organised by
Urdu Press Club and Unijules Life Sciences Ltd on Tuesday.
Stating that employment opportunities
actually exist in the form of small farmers growing medicinal
plants, pharmacies and manufacturers of these systems of medicines,
he said, "What we need is a collaborative efforts to combine and
link them together."
Elaborating on how AYUSH (Ayurveda,
Yoga, Unani, Siddha & Homeopathy) using the huge amount of fund
sanctioned by the Ministry is working to expand the scope of Indian
systems of medicines, Azad said, "Efforts are now on to integrate
dispensaries providing Indian systems of medicines with those
providing allopathic treatment."
Gokul Patnaik, Chairman of Global
Agricultural Systems and Advisor to the National Medicinal Plant
Board while stating that the international market for medicinal
plants is $60 billion on 2004 and it is growing by 15% per year,
said, "In such a scenario the world is looking to India and
China to fulfil its demand."
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During
the seminar Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was conferred with a
Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition to his services for
Indian Medicine System. |
"Already Chinese medicines have
achieved the necessary accreditation for foreign markets even though
the Chinese system has no written text, unlike Indian traditional
systems", he added.
Other experts from the fields who were
present in the seminar spoke of the overseas demand for the
alternative systems of medicine and stressed on the need for proper
standardisation of drugs so that they can be accepted in foreign
markets.
During the seminar Union Minister
Ghulam Nabi Azad was conferred with a Lifetime Achievement Award in
recognition to his services for Indian Medicine System. An Award for
Excellence was also given to Chairman Unijules Life Sciences Ltd Zakir S
Vali on the occasion.
The seminar concluded with Bala
Prasad, Chief Executive of the National Medicinal Plant Board,
assuring to extend all supports through his department to any farmer
who is interested in growing medicinal plants and herbs, and willing
to become a part of this ‘sunrise sector’.
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