New Global Outfit, Ganesh, to Integrate Ayurveda with Modern Sciences

DEHRADUN:
A Global Ayurvedic Network for Excellence and Science Harmonisation (GANESH) has been launched to promote Ayurveda and integrate traditional medicines with modern sciences in coordination with medical institutions, practitioners and researchers across the world, the 10th World Ayurveda Congress was informed today.

Addressing the last plenary session of the four-day Congress, which concluded here today, Dr Antonio Iswara Morandi, a World Health Organisation (WHO) Advisor for Ayurveda, said the World Ayurveda Foundation (WAF) has accepted his proposal for putting in place such a mechanism for overcoming the challenges being confronted in the efforts to take the ancient system of medicine across the globe.

He was speaking at a session “Harmonising Science and Spirituality” which also covered subjects like “Genome to Om” and insights from ancient wisdom. Dr Morandi said the network will bring together different systems and approaches for providing optimal healthcare to patients all over the world.

Dr Morandi, who is also President of the Italian Scientific Society for Ayurvedic Medicine and Chairman and Director of the School of Ayurvedic Medicine “Ayurvedic Point,” said GANESH will have a sophisticated methodological framework and a practical system that will help integrate Ayurveda into other systems of medicine prevalent in various countries.

GANESH, which will function under the aegis of WAF, will have a core committee and an advisory Board comprising international experts in the field of medicine, besides regional representatives who will work closely with the stakeholders in their countries.

The network’s name, GANESH, has been carefully chosen as the Hindu god is believed to help remove any type of obstacle in the way of achieving goals, he said. GANESH will have clear accountability for fostering collaboration and dissemination of innovations through new ways of knowledge integration.

Among the approaches that will be adopted are Collaborative Medicine and Science (Co.MS) and reformulation of Ayurveda Epistemology, modelling of Ayurveda and localization of Ayurveda in various geographical regions.

The move will offer a new healthcare ecosystem through seamless integration of practices of different systems of medicine wherever necessary, he explained.