Bhubaneswar: AIIMS Bhubaneswar and the Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH) have initiated working together to set up a department of integrative medicine at AIIMS Bhubaneswar here, said the official sources on Wednesday.
To integrate homoeopathy into the existing healthcare system, AIIMS Bhubaneswar signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the CCRH under the Ministry of Ayush on Tuesday. The agreement aims to reduce the over usage of modern medicine drugs in these tertiary health care facilities, said the official sources.
“The MoU will provide the scope to explore and establish the scientific evidence of homoeopathy. Through this agreement, the two national institutes will have the scope of collaborative research for the therapeutic response of the medicine in homoeopathy and protocol of treatment,” said AIIMS Bhubaneswar executive director Ashutosh Biswas.
CCRH’s director general Subhash Kaushik said that homoeopathy has a wide potential as an integrative system. “The outcome of this MoU will certainly boost the healthcare system and benefit the masses,” he added.
Experts attending the MoU signing programme said the popularity and the cost-effectiveness of homoeopathy make it a sustainable system for integration into the modern healthcare system. Integrating homoeopathy in healthcare will help to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) as advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
During the Covid pandemic, Kaushik said, homoeopathy proved a precedent of adjunctive care to standard therapy. Integrative homoeopathic care has provided varied successful integration and outcomes for Covid-19, dengue, acute encephalitis syndrome, post covid illness, cancer care, acute otitis media, and mental diseases in the research centres and healthcare facilities of the CCRH, he added.
Homoeopathy has been used as a therapeutic measure over the years in different diseased conditions.
To integrate homoeopathy into the existing healthcare system, AIIMS Bhubaneswar signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the CCRH under the Ministry of Ayush on Tuesday. The agreement aims to reduce the over usage of modern medicine drugs in these tertiary health care facilities, said the official sources.
“The MoU will provide the scope to explore and establish the scientific evidence of homoeopathy. Through this agreement, the two national institutes will have the scope of collaborative research for the therapeutic response of the medicine in homoeopathy and protocol of treatment,” said AIIMS Bhubaneswar executive director Ashutosh Biswas.
CCRH’s director general Subhash Kaushik said that homoeopathy has a wide potential as an integrative system. “The outcome of this MoU will certainly boost the healthcare system and benefit the masses,” he added.
Experts attending the MoU signing programme said the popularity and the cost-effectiveness of homoeopathy make it a sustainable system for integration into the modern healthcare system. Integrating homoeopathy in healthcare will help to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) as advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
During the Covid pandemic, Kaushik said, homoeopathy proved a precedent of adjunctive care to standard therapy. Integrative homoeopathic care has provided varied successful integration and outcomes for Covid-19, dengue, acute encephalitis syndrome, post covid illness, cancer care, acute otitis media, and mental diseases in the research centres and healthcare facilities of the CCRH, he added.
Homoeopathy has been used as a therapeutic measure over the years in different diseased conditions.
