The National Medical Commission (NMC) has made it compulsory for every medical college to have a “Department of Integrative Medicine Research” to promote integration of modern medicine with homoeopathy and Indian systems of medicine such as Ayurveda.
Suresh Chandra Sharma, Chairman, NMC, said this at his first joint meeting with the functionaries of the National Commission for Homoeopathy (NCH) and the National Commission for Indian Systems of Medicine (NCISM). The meeting was held on June 29 as per Section 50(1) of the NMC Act, 2019. Its details were made available through a query under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by K.V. Babu, Kannur-based ophthalmologist and RTI activist.
Dr. Sharma said at the meeting that the best methods for integration should be found out and implemented in a scientific manner for the development of all three sectors. This should eventually serve the purpose of helping the mankind in disease prevention, cure and control, he said.
