029. Russian delegation in Kerala to experience pleasures of Ayurvedam!

Russian delegation in Kerala to experience Ayurveda first-hand

By Health India.Com

October 30, 2013 

A six-member Russian delegation, led by Deputy Health Minister Igor Kagramanyan and Sergei Kalashnikov, chairman of the Russian parliamentary committee on health is arriving in the state capital and stay for a week to have a first-hand experience of Ayurveda so that it can be promoted in their country. 

It is visiting under the aegis of NGO Ayurveda Russia-India Association to have talks with Kerala health and tourism ministers and officials. The NGO’s representative told IANS that the delegation would have an exposure to Ayurveda. They would undergo a week-long Ayurveda rejuvenation programme at resorts.

‘The department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy, of the central Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is coordinating the visit. They will be taking care of the promotion of Ayurveda at the government level between the two countries,’ said the spokesman. He also said that the biggest beneficiary of meeting between representatives from the two countries would be the numerous resorts that offer Ayurveda packages in the state for Russian tourists.

‘Once this gets the approval, insurance companies in Russia would reimburse Ayurveda packages for them,’ said Narayanan. The visiting delegation is also expected to discuss about having short courses on Ayurveda at Russian universities.

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Comment:

Health tourism is developing as a lucrative industry in Kerala, accompanied by prostitution in many resorts in the name of massage, occasional raids and media news. Ayurveda is on the decline in Kerala thanks to negligence of government and also due to pressure from allopathy profession. Due to forest laws and also due to de-forestation and eco-destruction, raw materials for ayurvedic preparations are rarely available now in Kerala, resulting in massive manufacture of bogus preparations. Professionals in the field of ayurvedam know that there is no scope for it in Kerala now, even though it is the only natural and dependable system of medicine advisable for Kerala. Thousands of delegations from all countries have come and gone, spending precious public revenue, and ayurvedam is still to be seen only in Kerala. What is going on even now is a farce. Co-existence of ayurvedam in government allopathic hospitals is condemned by medical bureaucrats and frowned upon by government. With this much number of half-learned physicians and academics practising in Kerala, there is today no need for anyone going to Kerala to study ayurvedam. This is only a publicity stunt for Russian politicians, Indian bureaucrats and a few massage centre owners. If the Russians are really interested in learning something about mingling traditional treatment systems with the modern scientific techniques of allopathy, it is better they visit the People’s Republic of China urgently, where we can see the harmonious co-existence of Acu-Puncture and Allopathy.