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Dr D.S. Rana, chairman, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

Ensure nutrition to last mile in rural India: Dr Rana

BS RAWAT
NEW DELHI:
Dr D.S. Rana, chairman, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council on Wellness, has said, “The nutraceutical industry should come together to ensure that nutrition reaches the last mile across rural India.”

Speaking at an ASSOCHAM event in New Delhi, Dr Rana urged the nutraceutical experts, “You should have focussed attention on this subject and you can find out an alternative to the use of modern medicine.”

He said that only in microscopic cases does the need arise for surgical treatment and other medicinal approaches, while 90 per cent cases can be prevented by changing our lifestyle, food habits and few other practices.

On the occasion, AYUSH and Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) joined hands to work jointly to promote nutraceuticals industry in India.

Inaugurating the event, Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Minister of State for MSME, advised the nutraceutical industry to develop their research wings to enable India to march ahead in line with India’s very rich, traditional, glorious cultural history in this field.

The minister stated, “We have to live in tune with nature, we have to adopt organic farming and we have to develop a food supplement so that nutritional level is high and diseases cannot thrive in our body. So long as immunity is strong enough, no outer germ can thrive in our body.”

He lamented that due to the costly and complicated method of modern, allopathic treatment people are very much frustrated, unable to pay the costs, unable to go through such a lengthy process and there is no surety also as sometimes it is based on imagination.

Dr Pushpa Vijayaraghavan, director, Sathguru Management Consultants, said, “In line with ongoing improvements in the R&D practice of the value chain management, the nutraceutical industry promises substantial growth in the coming five years.”


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