Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Jan 8: A team of US experts, representing “Indo-US Health Initiatives” (IUHI), today met Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh and discussed the scope of mutual collaboration between the two countries of USA and India in healthcare sector, with particular focus on Integrated Medicine, Yoga and other alternative streams of healthcare management.
The team led by Boston-based Kanchan Banerjee, Director “Indo-US Health Initiatives” and comprising among others, Dr Balram Singh, President Institute of Advanced Sciences, Boston, Dr Hillary Garivaltis, Dr Manoj Bhasin of Harvard Medical School and others, made a brief presentation before Dr Jitendra Singh to project the different options for collaboration involving Indian healthcare systems along with latest healthcare technology.
The members of the team also briefed the Minister about their plan to establish the “Boston Center for Excellence for Health & Human Development” to do research and development with promotion of Yoga and Ayurveda in mainstream healthcare system globally and particularly in the United States of America.
The team members also invited Dr Jitendra Singh to the Annual International Conference being organized by them at Boston in the month of June and informed that the theme of the Conference this year is “Integrated Medicine and Yoga in Cancer”.
Dr Jitendra Singh appreciated the work being done by the “Indo-US Health Initiatives” group and said, during the last three years of the Modi Government, especially because of the personal intervention and outreach of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Yoga has not only found a world-wide acceptance, but is also becoming increasingly popular in the US as well as other parts of the western world as a means of curative as well as preventive healthcare. The benefits of Yoga in containing lifestyle diseases like Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, hypertension and heart diseases have been proven with evidence beyond doubt, as a result of which, the leading healthcare centres in the world are also including Yoga and other related health practices in the protocol of their management and preventive regimens, he said.
Dr Jitendra Singh suggested to the members of the US team to prepare a comprehensive document pointing out specific areas, in which the collaboration can be initiated, to begin with. He said, he would then place the proposal submitted by them before different concerned Ministries and agencies for their views and inputs.
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