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| Kathmandu, Thursday February 27, 2003 Falgun 15, 2059. |
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Integration
is enrichment
During the Inaugural
Session of the Third National Convention of Nepal Ayurveda Doctors Association, it was
stated that paucity of resources may affect development and implementation of ayurvedic
programmes included in the Tenth Five Year Plan. Referring to the result of WHO exercises,
"Health for All by 2000" and dwelling on the four decade-long adjustmental
measures exercised in China, the urgency of updating modern medical practices by selective
integration of traditional / indigenous technique was elaboratively voiced, seeking
faithful attention of policy enunciators supportive to promotion of traditional skill,
appropriate use of natural resources as well as people engaged in poverty alleviation
exercises. (The Kathmandu Post, January 30, 2003, page 5).
Programmes for medical
institute are in an operative agenda, and periodic medical camps are under planning. But
the traditional system, which is profusely valued by over 80 per cent Nepalese community,
has not been brought into modern practices. The Ayurvedic system and school are being set
aside sectorally as of secondary or tertiary importance meant for unpriviledged and
illiterate people. If such a discriminatory practice prevails, our grandchildren will have
to learn our own ancestral system under "integrated medical practice" we are
asking for today, from the specialist of the western nations who would be claiming as
oriental experts and would be having patent rights of our medical herbs and traditional
techniques tomorrow.
Chiranjeevi L
Shrestha (Vaidya)
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu |
