New Delhi, Oct 17: In an important initiative taken by
India, Republic of Hungary has signed a bilateral agreement with India
for promotion and development of traditional systems of medicine. The
Memorandum of Understanding was signed on behalf of India by Santosh
Chowdhary, Union Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare and
Zolton Banog, Minister of National Resources of Hungary in the presence
of Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India and Viktor Orban, Prime
Minister of Hungary, at Hyderabad House, here today.The Republic of
Hungary has considerable interest in Indian traditional systems of
medicine especially Ayurveda.
The main objective of this MoU is to strengthen, promote and develop
cooperation in the field of traditional systems of medicine between the
two countries on the basis of equality and mutual benefits. The MoU
encourages and promotes cooperation to enhance the use of traditional
systems of medicine, exchange of regulatory information on operational
licensing to practice traditional medicine and on marketing
authorization of medicines in both countries, promote the exchange of
experts for training of practitioners, para-medics, scientists, teaching
professionals and students in traditional systems of medicine. The
signing of MoU will give boost to bilateral cooperation between the two
countries in the areas of traditional medicines which will open new
vistas for exploring the potential of economic, commercial and tourism
development in both the countries.
Smt. Santosh Chowdhary has expressed hope that signing of such bilateral
agreements, India will be able to establish the Indian systems of
medicines namely Ayurveda, Unani, Yoga and Naturopathy, Siddha,
Homeophathy and Sowa-Rigpa (Namchi) that will help in establishing the
global recognition of India’s well established systems in the world
over. It may be mentioned that India has already signed such agreements
with Malaysia and Trininad and Tobago and is in the process of signing
agreements with Russia, Nepal, Srilanka, Serbia and Mexico in near
future.
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