PM Modi highlights global collaboration at WHO Traditional Medicine Summit

The second WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine facilitated dialogues among health ministers and representatives of various countries, opening up new avenues for promoting joint research, simplifying regulations, and advancing training and knowledge sharing, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the closing ceremony of the summit at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on Friday (December 19, 2025).  

Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said that over the past three days, experts in the field of traditional medicine from across the world engaged in serious and meaningful discussions.  

“It is India’s privilege and a matter of pride that the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine has been established in Jamnagar,” said the Prime Minister. 

He noted that the summit also provided an opportunity to showcase digital health technology, AI-based tools, research innovations, and modern wellness infrastructure, which together demonstrated a new collaboration between tradition and technology. “When tradition and technology come together, the capacity to make global health more effective increases significantly, and therefore the success of this summit holds great importance from a global perspective,” he said. 

The PM also highlighted the launch of the Traditional Medicine Global Library as an international platform aimed at preserving scientific data and policy documents related to traditional medicine in one place.  

Emphasising India’s focus on ‘partnerships of healing’ globally, Prime Minister Modi shared two significant collaborations: the establishment of a Centre of Excellence for BIMSTEC countries, covering South and South-East Asia, and a collaboration with Japan aimed at integrating science, traditional practices, and health.  

The Prime Minister highlighted that the theme of this summit, ‘Restoring Balance: The Science and Practice of Health and Well-being,’ reflects the foundational thought of holistic health. He said Ayurveda equates balance with health, and only those whose bodies maintain this balance are truly healthy. He pointed out that today, diseases ranging from diabetes, heart attacks, and depression to cancer often have lifestyle issues and imbalances as their underlying causes, including work-life imbalance, diet imbalance, sleep imbalance, gut microbiome imbalance, calorie imbalance, and emotional imbalance.  

He underlined that ‘restoring balance’ is not just a global cause but a global urgency, and he called for faster steps to address it.