COVID-19 shifted medical fraternity's attention to integrated healthcare: Minister Jitendra Singh

Union Minister Jitendra Singh Saturday said coronavirus pandemic has shifted medical fraternity's attention to integrated healthcare and w physicians across world are looking for optimum synergy among different streams of medical manment.

He said during COVD-19 pandemic, several allopathic medical professionals who were hirto skeptic about or systems of medicine, started showing interest in immunity-building drugs and resistance boosters from Ayurveda and homeopathy.

“If every adversity is accompanied with a virtue, as far as medical fraternity is concerned, pandemic had prompted all different streams of medical practice to come toger and find an optimum meeting point,” said Singh, Minister of State for Personnel.

He was addressing a global conference on integrated healthcare and communication in which experts from different countries participated.

COVID-19 has shifted medical fraternity's attention to integrated healthcare and w physicians across world are looking for optimum synergism among different streams of medical manment, according to a Personnel Ministry statement.

Even during pre-COVID era, it had been proven with evidence that in treatment of n-communicable diseases, like for example, Diabetes-Mellitus, dose of insulin or oral anti-diabetic drugs could be brought down with adjuvant practice of certain yoga asana and lifestyle modifications available in naturopathy, Singh said.

However, re was a certain amount of skepticism in certain quarters, which has been done away with in face of COVID-19 challenge, he added.

India, said Singh, in first half of 20th century was kwn to have a high prevalence of infectious disease and at that time n-pharmacological practices like maintenance of hygiene used to be a part of prescription.

“But, if somewhere down line it had got forgotten, COVID had revived se practices through social distancing and hand wash, and entire world is constrained to adopt m,” he said.

Singh recalled that ever since Narendra Modi took over as Prime Minister of India, he has brought to centrest virtues of indigeus system of medical manment, statement said.

He said, it was Modi, who brought a unanimous resolution in United Nations to observe International Day of Yoga, as a result of which yoga has reached virtually every household across world.

It is again Prime Minister Modi who created a separate Ministry of AYUSH, considering importance of indigeus medical manment system, Singh said.

table among ors who spoke during webinar included Professor Elissa Epel from University of California, Peter Wayne from Harvard, Susan Bauer Wu from Latin America, Professor Vikram Patel from Harvard and ors, statement said.

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