COIMBATORE, INDIA, July 24, 2008: The four-day global convention on Ayurveda, beginning at Coimbatore on 21st August, will evolve strategies for integrating ayurveda in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and prepare a mission document for globalization of the ancient science.
Efforts were on to formulate guidelines to offer ayurvedic treatment in its purest form and come out with strategies for integrating ayurveda in the NRHM, P. Ram Manohar, Secretary General of the scientific session of the conference told reporters in Kochi on Sunday. World over the population of the aged is on the rise and the Department of Ayush under the Health Ministry has identified Geriatrics as a priority area, he said. Metabolic disorders and nutrition are the other two areas which the conference will focus on.
Around 110 scholars from India and abroad will address the sessions in which about 2500 delegates, including 300 from abroad are expected to participate.