The Indian
Traditional Sciences, including Ayurveda and Yoga, are the answer to reducing
the healthcare gap in the UK, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for
Indian Traditional Sciences, Virendra Sharma, has said.
“The
mainstream medical model of the UK has neither the capacity nor resources to
help those who are not sick enough to need a hospital, nor well enough to be
functioning members of society. This gap in healthcare leads to increased rates
of mental health problems, broken homes, and a deserted workforce,” Sharma, the
MP for Ealing Southall, said.
He was
speaking during the celebration of the 8th International Yoga Day (June 21) by
the APPG. On the occasion, an international online conference featuring
Parliamentarians, doctors, Yoga teachers, Jyotish experts, Ayurvedic experts,
consultant surgeons, representatives of universities and medical institutes,
and other luminaries from the UK and around the world, was held.
The topics
for discussion mainly included how practical technologies and approaches of
Yoga, Ayurveda, and other modalities have proved highly effective in preventing
illness, restoring health, and bringing peace and happiness to the individual
and society.
The latest research results were presented, along with proposals for future investigations.
Agreements were reached between delegates to collaborate on breakthrough
medical research projects. Exchange visits by delegates between the UK and
Japan and the UK and Austria were agreed to follow-up on important advances in
healthcare.
The APPG
will expedite a series of meetings with Parliamentarians in both the UK
House of Commons and the House of Lords, in order to consolidate proposals for
wellness programs and preventative health care education in collaboration
with the UK health services.
The APPG for
Indian Traditional Sciences aims to promote parliamentary and public
understanding of Indian Traditional Sciences (Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Vastu,
Unani and Sangeetam) in the UK and abroad, and to expand and integrate Medical
Pluralism in the National Health Service.
