Shillong, August 12: The Additional Chief Secretary of Meghalaya Dr. Shreeranjan said that in the absence of qualified doctors in the rural areas traditional healing system should be encourage saving the lives of the people in the rural areas till they were taken to government health care centre.
While inaugurating the Meghalaya Traditional Practitioners Meet, 2016 organized by the Bio- Resources Development Centre (BRDC) in partnership with the Santhigiri Ashram, Kerela under the aegis of Integrated Basin Development and Livelihood Promotion Programme (IBDLP).
In order to promote and systematize the traditional healing system in the State, said that there should be a closed coordination between the traditional healer and the government agency to monitor and preserved the age old knowledge that they have through documentation so that it can pass on to next generation.
More than 50 traditional medicine practitioners from all over the State participated in the Meet which provides an opportunity for the practitioners to interact and share their issues and concerns with eminent scientists, professionals on various topics relating to medicinal plants and the traditional healthcare practices in the State of Meghalaya.
The Meet also provides a platform to come up with a common vision to promote the indigenous and traditional health care services in the State as well as the various aspects of conservation, cultivation and value chain linked to the medicinal plants.
During the day long programme, various topics such as “Approach to promote cultivation of potential medicinal plants with readymade access to market”, “Wellness Centre for integrated traditional health care services (Preventive, curative health care, public health etc.)”, “Measures for standardization of products and procedures of traditional healing method”, “Approach to value addition and manufacturing of medicine and various herbal products”, “Perspective plan for bio-prospection of the properties of potential marketable medicinal plants commonly used by herbal practitioners” and “A way forward for GMP, G.I. Certification, IPR, Certification of practices” were discussed.
Others official who were present in the one day seminar on Traditional Practitioners Meet, 2016 were Shri R.M. Mishra, Principal Secretary, Planning, Shri K.W. Marbaniang, Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Dr. B. D. R. Tiwari, Secretary, Planning and Member Secretary, BRDC, Dr. P. K. Goswami, Director, NEIAH, Shillong, Swami Padmaprakasha, in-charge Santhigiri Ashram, New Delhi and Member National Medical & Wellness Tourism Board, New Delhi among others.
