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What is the News?
The Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine(WHO GCTM).
What is WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (WHO GCTM)?
WHO GCTM will be the first and only global outposted Centre (office) for traditional medicine across the globe.
It will be established under the Ministry of AYUSH.
Location: Jamnagar, Gujarat.
Purpose: The Centre will help 1) To position AYUSH systems across the globe, 2) To ensure quality, safety and efficacy, accessibility and rational use of traditional medicine, 3) To help develop norms, standards and guidelines, tools and methodologies for collecting data, undertaking analytics and assessing impact, 4) To develop specific capacity building and training programmes in the areas of relevance.
Source: This post is based on the article “Cabinet approves establishment of WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India” published in PIB on 9th Mar 2022
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