India Can Show The World The Right Path For Medical Pluralism
2 years, 4 months ago

India Can Show The World The Right Path For Medical Pluralism

News 18  

Diversity in any area or sector is a characteristic that is not only intrinsically fundamental to a population but also has practical necessities. As India sits on a gold mine of knowledge of several health systems, the major challenge is to back them up with gold standard researched evidence and integrate them into state health services on a mass level. Pandemics and Need for Resilient Health Systems The world has seen even the strongest and the best health structures crumbling down on their knees in the last two years. For us to have robust and integrated health systems, it is crucial that the Ministry of AYUSH modifies its policies, prioritises research, and makes traditional medicine evidence-based. They are: Revisiting the role of traditional medicine in national public health goals, preventing threat of commercial exploitation of indigenous knowledge, changing disease burden and search for therapies for care and addressing the shortages of human resources in rural areas.

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A decade of transformation: India's journey towards healthcare equity and excellence
1 week, 4 days ago

A decade of transformation: India's journey towards healthcare equity and excellence

India Today  

The journey of healthcare transformation is not merely about policy shifts or technological integration; it is about reimagining the role of healthcare as a cornerstone of national development. For global leaders, policymakers, and healthcare executives, India’s transformative journey offers a compelling roadmap for addressing systemic challenges while leveraging innovation for scalable, equitable impact. Lessons for global leaders India’s healthcare transformation …

Why India needs to relook its strategy to revive medical tourism industry
3 weeks ago

Why India needs to relook its strategy to revive medical tourism industry

Live Mint  

The promising medical tourism sector in India is facing significant challenges. The driving factors for medical tourism in India have been international-standard infrastructure, superior service compared to the home countries, and relatively affordable healthcare. diversify The current challenges necessitate a rethink of India’s medical tourism strategies and the National Strategy and Roadmap for Medical and Wellness Tourism, which the tourism …

'India fourth largest medical devices market after Japan, China and South Korea': Union Minister Anupriya Patel
3 weeks, 2 days ago

'India fourth largest medical devices market after Japan, China and South Korea': Union Minister Anupriya Patel

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: India is the fourth largest medical devices market in Asia after Japan, China, and South Korea and among the top 20 global medical devices markets in the world, said Union Minister of State of Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel on Thursday. Speaking at the 21st Health Summit of the Confederation of Indian Industry, she said the medical …

Health care: Innovations for an inclusive future
4 months, 1 week ago

Health care: Innovations for an inclusive future

Hindustan Times  

India's health care sector is experiencing unprecedented growth, driven not just by rising incomes, but also through a confluence of transformative factors. By fostering supportive government policies, India has the potential not only to improve health care for its citizens but also to set a global benchmark for affordable, high-quality care. Four areas need urgent attention: * Policy and regulatory …

India commits $85 million to WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre
5 months, 1 week ago

India commits $85 million to WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre

The Hindu  

“India has committed $85 million over 10 years, 2022–2032, to support the programming of the World Health Organization Global Traditional Medicine Centre and this decade-long contribution will support a cross-sectoral programme of work to strengthen the evidence base for traditional medicine by providing data and evidence on traditional medicine policies, practice, products, and public use,” the world body said in …

Letters to The Editor — June 11, 2024
7 months ago

Letters to The Editor — June 11, 2024

The Hindu  

Alternative medicine The recent article by Dr. K. Madan Gopal, “The delicate balancing of health-care costs”, on the need for balancing health-care costs, puts forth much needed insights into the matter. India enjoys medical pluralism and the role of alternative health care too needs to be deliberated upon in this context, especially in the preventive aspect. Intervention through alternative medical …

U.S. Medical System Most Incompetent In The World , Says American Entrepreneur | HTLS 2023
1 year, 2 months ago

U.S. Medical System Most Incompetent In The World , Says American Entrepreneur | HTLS 2023

Hindustan Times  

U.S. Medical System Most Incompetent In The World, Says American Entrepreneur | HTLS 2023 American entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa calls the medical system of the United States the worst in the world. He shared his horrifying experience during the cancer cure for his wife in the U.S. Watch this session from the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. #cancercure #vivekwadhwa #unitedstates #medicalsystem #healthcare …

India enters into bilateral collaboration with five countries to conduct research in traditional medicines and study best practices
1 year, 4 months ago

India enters into bilateral collaboration with five countries to conduct research in traditional medicines and study best practices

The Hindu  

In an effort to expand the scope and work of Indian Systems of Traditional Medicine, India has entered into a bilateral collaboration with five countries — Nepal, Cuba, Malaysia, Venezuela, and Qatar — to share best practices and benefit from the work going on here in this field. “These bilateral meetings have provided an opportunity for renewing of ties, and …

A US-India partnership to advance global health
1 year, 4 months ago

A US-India partnership to advance global health

Hindustan Times  

This week I am joining India’s health minister Mansukh Mandaviya for the G20 health ministerial in Gandhinagar. We are developing strategies to address common challenges including pandemic response, achieving universal health coverage, improving global access to medical supplies during health emergencies, digital health, and the impact of the climate crisis on health. Global health offers unique opportunities to come together …

WHO asks countries to work towards unlocking the power of traditional medicine
1 year, 4 months ago

WHO asks countries to work towards unlocking the power of traditional medicine

The Hindu  

The World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday urged countries around the world to work towards unlocking the power of traditional medicine and provide evidence and action-based suggestions that can be interpreted into a global strategy. Ancient wisdom, modern science Also addressing the meeting, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that by embracing ancient wisdom and modern science, the …

Health Matters | In search of freedom from malaise
1 year, 4 months ago

Health Matters | In search of freedom from malaise

The Hindu  

It is practically nigh possible to ignore the tricolour or the passions it whips up in people of this country. Meanwhile, the results of a study by two NGOs in Tamil Nadu found several environmental and pollution issues affecting villagers in and around the two power stations in Chennai’s Neyveli and Cuddalore. A study showed how targeted sensitising of health …

Explained | How One Health can help India respond better to health crises
1 year, 4 months ago

Explained | How One Health can help India respond better to health crises

The Hindu  

The concept of ‘One Health’ is currently gaining popularity worldwide; India has of late been taking significant strides to deploy concepts and strategies rooted in this idea to bolster the way it responds to health crises. India is also currently preparing for a wider ‘National One Health Mission’ to be spearheaded by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor. India’s …

India needs evidence-based, ethics-driven medicine
1 year, 5 months ago

India needs evidence-based, ethics-driven medicine

The Hindu  

The recent push to integrate ‘AYUSH’ medicinal systems into mainstream health care to achieve universal health coverage and ‘decolonise medicine’ is a pluralistic approach that would require every participating system to meet basic safety and efficacy standards. The first carefully conducted and well-reported double-blind randomised controlled trial, the Nuremberg Salt Test, noted that “the symptoms or changes which the homeopaths …

Is India’s health research aligned with India’s health needs?
1 year, 5 months ago

Is India’s health research aligned with India’s health needs?

The Hindu  

The COVID-19 pandemic intensified discussions around health and well-being. Research focus v. disease burden The crucial role of healthcare research in advancing public health is undeniable, yet India’s research spending remains low. We used the World Health Organisation’s 2000-2019 ‘Global Health Estimates’ on DALYs to estimate the burden of diseases and the number of scientific publications to evaluate research efforts. …

India’s traditional medicine discourse: less about medicine, more about India
1 year, 6 months ago

India’s traditional medicine discourse: less about medicine, more about India

The Hindu  

Of late, there has been a big surge in grandiloquent claims about Ayurveda and Indian traditional medicine. Indian communities’ knowledge Nevertheless, the dominance of Ayurveda and its samhitas in the mainstream discourse indicates that, in the eyes of popular TM advocates, some forms of TM are better and more important than others. This would be unremarkable but for the fact …

Country's Health Service Undergoing Rapid Transformation: PM Modi
1 year, 8 months ago

Country's Health Service Undergoing Rapid Transformation: PM Modi

News 18  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the country’s health service is undergoing a “rapid transformation”, asserting that in the last nine years, the poor have realized that medical facilities are easily accessible to them. The PM said that the Ayushman Bharat scheme has played an important role in it and opened the door to not only government hospitals but …

India intends to make healthcare affordable for whole world: PM Modi
1 year, 8 months ago

India intends to make healthcare affordable for whole world: PM Modi

The Hindu  

“India’s goal is to make healthcare accessible and affordable, not only for our citizens but for the whole world,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his video message following the inauguration the 6th Edition of One Earth One Health – Advantage Healthcare India 2023 meet on Wednesday. He said that India’s traditional healthcare systems held a lot of answers to …

The big tests of India’s healthcare ambitions, in 5 charts
1 year, 9 months ago

The big tests of India’s healthcare ambitions, in 5 charts

Live Mint  

Friday, 7 April, will mark World Health Day. Despite public health milestones such as the eradication of polio and neonatal tetanus, India still has miles to go in achieving universal healthcare. A health ministry report for 2021-22 showed that community health centres—the third and top tier of public healthcare service in rural India—have an 82% shortfall in paediatricians and 80% …

Focus on consumer health over govt medical record infra: Sumbul Desai
1 year, 10 months ago

Focus on consumer health over govt medical record infra: Sumbul Desai

Live Mint  

Consumer-tech major Apple will continue to focus on the consumers’ personal health and fitness features on Apple Watch and iPhone, instead of tapping into governments’ health information infrastructure, and medical records, worldwide. In an interview, Sumbul Desai, vice president, Health, Apple said it is not looking to transform medical records but yearns to help consumers gain more insights into their …

Nine decades of shaping healthcare
1 year, 10 months ago

Nine decades of shaping healthcare

New Indian Express  

How has technology changed the landscape of healthcare in India? I think the first person we go to when we have a viral fever or any minor health issue is who I would like to call Dr Google. Either way, an individual needs to pay a visit to a doctor and follow the right cycle instead of depending on videos …

Under its G20 Presidency, India plans to strive for equitable health care for all: Bharati Pawar
1 year, 11 months ago

Under its G20 Presidency, India plans to strive for equitable health care for all: Bharati Pawar

The Hindu  

Under its G20 Presidency, India plans to strive for equitable access to health care for all and to help create a framework which can reduce disparities in health care availability across the world, Union Minister Bharati Pawar said on Thursday. “India envisions to accelerate efforts towards increasing the pace of implementation of value-based health care and achieving the goal of …

India can and will lead in solving global problems
2 years, 1 month ago

India can and will lead in solving global problems

Hindustan Times  

At a meeting in Palo Alto, United States, with biotech leaders on October 14, Rajesh Gokhale, secretary of the department of biotechnology, discussed the advantages that India provided in medical research: A vast population with many needs, an abundance of scientific and technical talent, and the government’s willingness to remove obstacles to innovation. The opportunity for India is twofold: To …

India’s journey towards improving health for all
2 years, 2 months ago

India’s journey towards improving health for all

Hindustan Times  

In the past few decades, research, science, innovation, policy initiatives and collaborations across public, private and social sectors around the globe have led to considerable progress in prolonging and improving life. The India Hypertension Control Initiative was awarded the 2022 UN Interagency Task Force and the WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care Award recently. India’s pharmaceutical industry has played …

Heal the nation before healing the rest of the world
2 years, 6 months ago

Heal the nation before healing the rest of the world

The Hindu  

Bolstering health human resources has been a prime focus of many of the Union government’s recent initiatives and policy pronouncements. The Union health Budget 2022 made handsome appropriations for the same, much in line with the Fifteenth Finance Commission’s recommendations which laid a conspicuous emphasis on utilising existing capacities at the district and sub-district levels to train different cadres of …

Ramdev's digs at modern medicine cause furore, but ugly face of Indian anti-science ideologies is nothing new
3 years, 7 months ago

Ramdev's digs at modern medicine cause furore, but ugly face of Indian anti-science ideologies is nothing new

Firstpost  

“To take vaccination is a dirty act. Last week’s mocking polemic by Ramkrishan Yadav against science-based medicine and doctors—“allopathy is a stupid science”, the godman, known as Baba Ramdev to his followers, proclaimed—has provoked an angry response from India’s medical community, on the frontline of the country’s battle against a pandemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Even …

WHO to set up centre for traditional medicine in India, PM says matter of pride
4 years, 1 month ago

WHO to set up centre for traditional medicine in India, PM says matter of pride

The Hindu  

The World Health Organisation announced on Friday that it will set up a Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing confidence that just like the country has emerged as the ‘pharmacy of the world’, the WHO institution will become the centre for global wellness. In his video message, Mr. Ghebreyesus said, “I am pleased …

WHO to set up centre for traditional medicine in India: PM Modi
4 years, 1 month ago

WHO to set up centre for traditional medicine in India: PM Modi

India TV News  

The World Health Organisation announced on Friday that it will set up a Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India, with Prime Minister Narendra expressing confidence that just like the country has emerged as the ''pharmacy of the world'', the WHO institution will become the centre for global wellness. "I am pleased to announce that we have agreed to open …

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