The World Health Organisation is mulling to set up a multi-country regulatory cooperation platform for traditional medicine practitioners, which will accelerate the global acceptance, and accessibility of Ayurveda within a period of 10 to 15 years of time, a WHO official said on Friday.
“Prevention, early detection and rehabilitation to improve healthy life expectancy are among our priorities in future. Based on these, we have to understand how to utilise the nearly 500,000 registered practitioners of Ayurveda globally, to achieve these goals,” said Dr Geetha Krishnan, technical officer (Traditional Medicine), WHO, Geneva.
Dr Krishnan was speaking at a session on ‘Expanding Scope of Ayurveda’ at the 9th edition of the World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) and Arogya Expo 2022 that began at Campal Grounds in Panaji on Thursday.
Elaborating the activities of WHO to promote Ayurveda, he said the UN body has come out with training modules for Ayurveda, benchmarks for regulating its practices and a standardised terminology document that would help Ayurveda practitioners to interact with modern medicine in an easier manner.
