Panaji: Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik on Friday said that the awareness and preaching of Yoga by Modi-led government has helped several countries fight back COVID-19 pandemic.
The minister was addressing a group of people during the launching of distribution campaign of Ayush 64 medicine.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government began celebrating International Yoga Day, seven years back, due to which there was awareness and preaching about the Yoga,” Naik said talking in presence of Chief Minister Pramod Sawant.
“Now many countries are recognizing that they could fight back COVID-19 through Yoga because it was preached to them,” the minister said.
He hailed PM for the visionary idea of spreading knowledge of Yoga across the world.
Speaking on the occasion, Sawant said that the State government has been taking help of Ayush doctors in its COVID-19 management programme.
He said that AYUSH clinics have been established in state run Health Centres, which also provides guidance to the people to avoid post-covid complications.
Sawant, who is also himself Ayurveda practitioner, said that Ayush 64 medicine has been approved by various authorities of the union government.
He said that these medicines would be made available through Health centres as a measure against COVID-19 spread.
