Senior Russian health officials visit Kerala and express a desire to
promote the traditional system of medicine in Russian universities and
to establish a chair.
The Russian Government is eager to work with
Kerala to promote yoga and integrate the ancient Indian system of natural
medication with the allopathic system. A nine-member delegation from Russia,
led by Sergei Kalashnikov, chairman of the Russian parliamentary committee on
health, is in the southern Indian state to explore various avenues of
cooperation.
The delegation met Kerala Chief Minister Oommen
Chandy and expressed their intention to popularise Ayurveda in Russia and the
Commonwealth of Independent States countries, the Hindu said.
The delegation conveyed their intention to recommend Ayurveda treatment in
Russia, to promote the traditional system of medicine in Russian universities
and to establish a chair, according to the paper. Chandy said he would support
the Russian initiative.
“A memorandum of understanding will be signed
between Kerala and the Russian government and this reflects the success of the
visit of the Russian delegation to the State,” the paper quoted M.R. Narayanan,
a board member of the Ayurveda Russia-India Association, as saying
“Our
visit is basically to look into the aspects of the cost, besides if this can be
possibly integrated with our system of medicine,” Kalashnikov was quoted by the
paper as saying.
India and Russia have already signed a
memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the cooperation in the field of Ayurveda
teaching, treatment and research.
Over the last 15 years, Russia has made vigorous
efforts to go in for Ayurveda in the country. With India’s support and assistance,
Russia set up Russian-Indian Centre on Ayurvedic Research in Moscow in October
2004. Genotype-phenotype studies on Prakriti and comparison of Indian and
Russian population are being presently pursued at the Centre. A permanent
exhibition is also to be set up in the Russian capital for promotion and sale
of Ayurvedic medicines. Indian Ayurvedic specialists have also shown keen
interests in growing some medicinal herbs in Russia that cannot be cultivated
in the hot climate of India.
An increasing number of Russian tourists are
visiting Kerala for ayurvedic treatment, which is believed to have fewer side
effects than Western systems.
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