Who global centre for traditional medicine in India.

March 11, 2022

Why in news?

Cabinet has approved the establishment of the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM) in Jamnagar, Gujarat by signing a Host Country agreement between the Government of India and the WHO.
This would be the first and only global outposted Centre, under Ministry of AYUSH for traditional medicine across the globe.
Benefits of GCTM
To position AYUSH systems across the globe.
To provide leadership on global health matters pertaining to traditional medicine.
To ensure quality, safety and efficacy, accessibility and rational use of traditional medicine.
To develop norms, standards, and guidelines in relevant technical areas for collecting data undertaking analytics, and assess impact.
To develop specific capacity building and training programmes in the areas of relevance to the objectives and conduct training programmes.
Other steps taken to promote traditional medicine
Scheme for Voluntary Certification of Yoga Professionals.
Yoga Certification Board (YCB) has been established to bring synergy, quality and uniformity in knowledge.
AYUSH Information Cell have been set up in 31 countries to disseminate authentic information about AYUSH system.

About Traditional medicine:

It refers to health practices, approaches, knowledge, and beliefs incorporating plant, spiritual therapies, etc to treat, diagnose and prevent illnesses or maintain well-being.
It composes of Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) and Sowa Rigpa.