{"id":12564,"date":"2011-09-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/26\/india-establishing-ayurveda-chairs-at-south-african-universities-2\/"},"modified":"2011-09-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T12:00:00","slug":"india-establishing-ayurveda-chairs-at-south-african-universities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/26\/india-establishing-ayurveda-chairs-at-south-african-universities-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India Establishing Ayurveda Chairs at South African Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/content\/191292\/india-set-up-ayurveda-chairs.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, September 16, 2011 (deccanherald.com): In response to growing interest, India will set up Ayurveda chairs at two South African universities by early next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The chair in Ayurveda at the Durban University of Technology and one in Unani at the University of the Western Cape will help institutionalize training in this very important field,&#8221; said Indian High Commissioner to South Africa Virendra Gupta at a recent Ayurveda Conference attended by delegates from both countries.<\/p>\n<p>South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is placing a priority on access to affordable healthcare, especially for rural communities. India&#8217;s medical tradition, over 5,000 years old, is a natural solution.<\/p>\n<p>Roy Padayachee, South African Minister of Communications and patron of the Ayurveda Foundation of South Africa, said his country&#8217;s rigid regulatory systems have excluded traditional medical methods. He is eager to adapt India&#8217;s experience to his country&#8217;s circumstances. &#8220;We need to start establishing the infrastructure to support (Ayurveda), so this contribution of India to establish chairs is a very great contribution, because it signals the start of intellectual centers in our nation which will spiral and grow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alongside that, we need to deal with the question of training and development, both in the academia and the professional services that we need to provide,&#8221; the minister said. He urged South Africans to accept an offer of assistance from India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, September 16, 2011 (deccanherald.com): In response to growing interest, India will set up Ayurveda chairs at,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}