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The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of India today signed an agreement to establish the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine. This global knowledge centre for traditional medicine, supported by an investment of USD 250 million from the Government of India, aims to harness the potential of traditional medicine from across the world through modern science and technology to improve the health of people and the planet. Around 80% of the world’s population is estimated to use traditional medicine. To date, 170 of the 194 WHO Member States have reported the use of traditional medicine, and their governments have asked for WHO’s support in creating a body of reliable evidence and data on traditional medicine practices and products. “For many millions of people around the world, traditional medicine is the first port of call to treat many diseases,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “Ensuring all people have access to safe and effective treatment is an essential part of WHO’s mission, and this new center will help to harness the power of science to strengthen the evidence base for traditional medicine. I’m grateful to the Government of India for its support, and we look forward to making it a success.” The term traditional medicine describes the total sum of the knowledge, skills and practices indigenous and different cultures have used over time to maintain health and prevent, diagnose and treat physical and mental illness. Its rea...

After the Health Ministry, AIIMS Director Dr. Randeep Guleria and DG ICMR Balram Bhargava on Thursday objected to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) report that claims that the number of COVID-19 fatalities globally is three times greater than the official tally. This comes after the WHO's claim that the total number of deaths due to the coronavirus was approximately 14.9 million, with regions such as South-East Asia, Europe, and the Americas recording the highest fatalities. Director-General of ICMR Balram Bhargava stated that when the COVID-19 deaths were occurring globally, India as well as WHO didn't have the correct definition of deaths. Raising a question, he asked if a person dies weeks or months after testing positive for COVID-19, will it fall under COVID death. "When we had COVID deaths occurring, we didn't have a definition of deaths, even WHO didn't have one. If one gets positive today & dies after 2 weeks - will it be COVID death, or after 2 months, 6 months - will it be COVID death? So, for that definition, we looked at all the data and we came to the conclusion that 95% of the deaths that occurred after testing positive for COVID-19 were occurring in the first 4 weeks. So, a cut-off of 30 days was laid for the definition of death," DG-ICMR said. He further added, "The data that we have such large amounts of data. We have data of more than 97-98% of 1.3 billion who have been vaccinated with the first dose & nearly 190 crores vaccine doses have been used. S...