A five-day international conference on Yoga and Ayurveda will be held in January next year in Bengaluru bringing together 30 nationally and 16 internationally acclaimed doctors to deliberate steps to integrate the best of modern medical system of the East and the West. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the event.
“The 21st International Conference on ‘Frontiers in Yoga Research and its Applications’ (INCOFYRA) will be organised from January 3 to 7 and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has volunteered to do the scientific documentation of the researches shared during the conference,” Union Health Minister JP Nadda told reporters here.
He said that the conference aims to bring the global yoga and medical fraternity on a common platform and to establish working group committees comprising universities, health care providers and policy makers to initiate collaborative research programmes.
The conference themed ‘Yoga in Integrated Healthcare Systems’ will be organized by the Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Sansthana.
Noting that non-communicable diseases were on rise and posing a formidable challenge, Nadda suggested that traditional systems of medicine such as yoga, ayurveda, unani etc can be integrated with the mainstream medicine system to provide treatment for these NCDs.