The report indicates that traditional healthcare systems in the country to be strengthened further. The integration of evidence-based Ayush services with the modern system has the potential to significantly strengthen India’s healthcare system.
New Delhi: NITI Aayog on Saturday released a compendium of Ayush-based practices from states and UTs detailing information about various Ayush-based initiatives and practices for containing and managing the Covid pandemic in India.
The world has been facing an unprecedented public health crisis in the form of Coronavirus. States and UTs have been jointly making efforts with the central government in managing the outbreak across the country. Ayush Departments of various states and UTs have joined their hands with state health authorities to strengthen fight against the virus.
“It is critical to communicate the learnings from the testing times during Covid-19 outbreak about how Ayush practices implemented at national and State level benefited people. The compendium provides information focused on practices adopted by various States and UTs of India for strengthening the country’s fight against the diseases, using Ayush’s resources and interventions. I am sure this document will be a crucial knowledge resource for stakeholders from other countries who have a good network of traditional medicine systems. It will significantly aid to our fight against the deadly virus, other epidemics, and pandemics in future,” stated NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Suman Bery.
“In India, along with the contemporary medicine system, Ayush systems have played an active role on various fronts to tackle the health crisis caused by the pandemic. I hope that these collective efforts of traditional and conventional healthcare systems will pave the way for the world by providing a holistic healthcare system model,” said Minister of State for Ayush Munjpara Mahendrabhai Kalubhai.
NITI Aayog Member VK Paul said, “I am hopeful that practices documented in this compendium will be useful to address any future surge of the pandemic and also serve as a model of an integrative approach to health action”.
The practices in the compendium have been disaggregated under five sections which are overview and objectives of practices adopted by the states/UTs, Ayush human resource and infrastructure, interventions and initiatives, digital platform and tele-medicine and issues occurred or addressed. The compendium has also included a summary of the Ministry of Ayush, Government of India guidelines, and initiatives.
The report indicates that traditional healthcare systems in the country to be strengthened further. The integration of evidence-based Ayush services with the modern system has the potential to significantly strengthen India’s healthcare system.
