New Delhi, August 20 Union Minister of State for AYUSH (Independent Charge) Prataprao Jadhav said that Ayurveda’s child care system can play an important role in making children healthy and achieving the goal of ‘Healthy child, healthy India’.
Prataprao Jadhav was addressing the 30th National Seminar of Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth, the topic of which was ‘Disease management and health promotion in children through Ayurveda’.
More than 500 Ayurveda experts, researchers, doctors and students participated in this two-day seminar. Its objective was to promote holistic health care for children.
In his concluding message, Jadhav said, “The “Kaumarbhritya” branch of Ayurveda has a great potential to improve the health of children. This branch combines three approaches to child care, which include preventive or prevention, promotive or focus on nutrition and lifestyle to make children healthy and strong, and effective treatment of diseases. This can improve the health of children.”
Prataprao Jadhav said, “The ideas and knowledge shared in the last two days will inspire new research and practical models that will help achieve the goal of ‘Healthy Child, Healthy India’.”
He emphasized that the outcome of this seminar will further strengthen the child health infrastructure of India.
Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Ministry of AYUSH said, “This seminar has proved to be an important platform for discussing and sharing knowledge on the role of Ayurveda in children’s health. Scientific research is necessary to prove the effectiveness of Ayurveda, so that it can be made credible. Apart from this, experts should work together to improve children’s health services by combining Ayurveda and modern medicine. This will help in creating more effective health solutions for children by combining the traditional knowledge of Ayurveda with modern science.”
RAV Director Dr. Vandana Siroha said in her closing address that the success of the seminar shows that RAV is fully committed to preparing new practitioners and researchers of Ayurveda.
In the two-day seminar, 20 scientific research papers were presented on children’s health through Ayurveda. Also, panel discussions were held on prevention of diseases and promotion of health in children.
The seminar concluded with the consensus that the holistic pediatric practices of Ayurveda should become a part of the mainstream in India’s health system. This will help in tackling lifestyle diseases, malnutrition and new health challenges, especially in children.
The event established Ayurveda as the foundation of holistic health of children and called for continued knowledge-sharing platforms at national and global levels.
