Ministers of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan as well as WHO
representatives and experts from different parts of the world attended
the Conference.
The Indian Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad
chaired the Conference and Ministers of each country made country
presentations followed by expert level discussions.
The Sri Lankan delegation besides Minister Dissanayake included High
Commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam, Dr. Newton A. Peiris, Advisor, Ministry
of Indigenous Medicine and Prof. K.K.D.S. Ranaweera, Director,
Bandaranaike Memorial Ayurvedic Research Institute.
The Conference acknowledged the values, strengths and potential of
indigenous and traditional medicine. The spirit behind the Delhi
Declaration is to foster development of traditional medicine across the
region and to share with each other the expertise, technologies, best
practices and to extend support and cooperation on the basis of mutual
interests and needs.
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Note: Sri Lanka has a Ministry of Indigenous Medicine
Minister of Indigenous Medicine Salinda Dissanayake attended the two day International Conference on Traditional Medicine for South – East Asian Countries that was held in New Delhi which concluded with the Delhi Declaration.
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