Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Wednesday that India will soon develop a unique AYUSH visa category for foreign individuals who want to come to India to receive AYUSH therapy, news agency ANI reported.
World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, who was also speaking at the inaugural function of the three-day Global Ayush Investment and Innovation Summit at Mahatma Mandir in Gujarat, said that he was “privileged to come to the land of Mahatma Gandhi.”
“Long term strategic investments along with government commitment are needed to support the innovation ecosystem for medicine in general and traditional medicine in particular,” said the top official of the global health body.
The inauguration ceremony was also attended by Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, and Union AYUSH Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
The Director General also called for “innovators, industry and government to develop traditional medicine in a sustainable, environmentally sensitive and equitable manner”. “When bringing traditional medicines into markets, we must ensure that the communities who had nurtured it and passed on this knowledge also benefit from their development,” said Ghebreyesus as per news agency PTI.
PM Modi also praised the AAYUSH Kadha for its role in “raising people’s immunity” during the pandemic. “This is the first time an investment summit for the AYUSH business has been conducted.” At the time of the Covid-19 outbreak, I had this thinking. ‘AYUSH Kada’ and other such products have helped people strengthen their immunity at this time,’ he claimed.
To harness the potential of Ayush systems to contain the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Ayush initiated many R&D and public health projects. The Ministry also worked with a number of research organizations to encourage, promote, and advance evidence-based Ayush research.
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