The convention aimed to promote evidence-based homoeopathic treatment, capacity building of homoeopathic practitioners to provide homoeopathy as the first line of treatment, and promote homoeopathy as a treatment of choice in households.
World Homoeopathy Day is celebrated every year on April 10th, the birth anniversary of the founder of homoeopathy, a German physician-chemist Dr Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann. This year, the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy under the Ministry of Ayush organized a one-day scientific convention on April 10 with the theme “Homoeoparivar – Sarvajan Swasthya, One Health, One Family”.
The Chief Guest, the Vice President of India, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar, exemplified the role of homoeopathy in combating COVID-19.
On this occasion, Union Minister of Ayush and Ports, Shipping, and Waterways, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal, emphasised the Ministry of Ayush's initiatives to promote the Ayush medical system. The Ministry of Health has encouraged the advancement of research and development in medical systems to make them more evidence-based and effective. The Ministry of Ayush has increased its budgetary allocation to support quality research in homoeopathy.
The inaugural ceremony was followed by a session on ‘Policy Aspects in the Development of Homoeopathy’. Topics like ‘Strategizing Homoeopathic Research, Education, and Practise, ‘Homoeopathy in Public Health’ and ‘Pharmacovigilance’ were also discussed.
An agreement was signed between CCRH and the Government of Kerala's Department of Homoeopathy to conduct a clinical trial on the immunological responses of the Arsenicum album in COVID-19.
CCRH signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with 70 state/ national homoeopathic medical colleges as part of a massive outreach to the homoeopathic education sector and to provide impetus to link education with research.
Source: PIB
