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20/04/22 19:37 PM IST

WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine

In News 
  • The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM) in Jamnagar.
About GCTM 
  • GCTM will be the first and only global outpost centre for traditional medicine across the world.
  • It will emerge as an international hub of global wellness.
  • The New Centre will focus on data, innovation and sustainability and will optimize the use of traditional medicine, he added.
  • The centres five main areas will be research and leadership, evidence and learning, data and analytics, sustainability and equity and innovation and technology.
  • Moe than five decades ago the world’s first Ayurvedic University was established in Jamnagar.
  • The city has a quality Ayurvedic institute in Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda.
Five Goals 
  • To create a database of traditional knowledge system using technology; 
  • GCTM can create international standards for testing and certification of traditional medicines so that confidence in these medicines improves.
  • GCTM should evolve as a platform where global experts of traditional medicines come together and share experiences.
  • GCTM should mobilize funding for research in the field of traditional medicines.
  • GCTM should develop protocols for holistic treatment of specific diseases so that patients could benefit from both traditional and modern medicine.
Source-PIB 

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