09 Jan 2024: PIB Summary for UPSC

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas
2. Traditional Medicine Morbidity Codes of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani 
Chapter in ICD 11
3. Defence Minister holds talks with his UK counterpart

1. Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas

Syllabus: GS-2, Indian Diaspora

Prelims: Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas

Context:

Prime Minister greets on the occasion of Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas.

Know why Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas is celebrated in the linked article.

2. Traditional Medicine Morbidity Codes of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani Chapter in ICD 11

Syllabus: GS-2, Health

Prelims: Indian medicine systems, ICD, Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI)

Context:

Traditional Medicine Morbidity Codes of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani Chapter in International Classification of Diseases (ICD) 11 launched as Module 2.

Details:

• The data and terminology relating to diseases based on Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani systems will now be included in the ICD11 classification of WHO. 
• This effort will lead to global uniformity in ASU (Ayurveda, Unani, and Siddha) medicine as a code of vocabulary defining diseases. 
• The Ministry of Ayush in collaboration with WHO has prepared a categorization of data and terminology related to diseases based on Ayush – Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani systems under the TM2 module of the ICD11 series. 
• The Ministry of Ayush has already developed the Code for Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani Medicine through the National Ayush Morbidity and Standardized Electronic Portal (NAMSTE). 

Background:

• The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a classification series called International Classification of Diseases (ICDs) to classify diseases internationally. 
• The current global data on diseases is mainly based on healthcare practices to be diagnosed through modern biomedicine. 
• The classification of data and terminology relating to diseases based on Ayush systems such as Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani etc. still needs to be included in the WHO ICD series.

Significance:

• This effort will further strengthen and expand India’s public healthcare delivery system, research, Ayush insurance coverage, research and development, and policy-making systems. 
• In addition, these codes will also be used in the formulation of future strategies to control various diseases in society. 
• Many other member countries of the World Health Organization are also willing to implement a similar format to include the terminology of traditional medical diseases in the ICD.
• Under ICD-11, there will be an international coding of such terminology and the names and data of prevalent diseases of Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani Medicine will be notified in the code internationally through the TM 2 module.

Related Information:

Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI)

• It is an agency under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that serves as the WHO Collaboration Centre for ICD-related activities. 
• It facilitates the collection and dissemination of data on various diseases and mortality.

3. Defence Minister holds talks with his UK counterpart

Syllabus: GS-2, IR

Mains: India – UK relations

Context:

Defence Minister of India Shri Rajnath Singh holds talks with UK Defence Minister.

Details:

• Both Ministers discussed a range of defence, security and cooperation matters with particular emphasis on enhancing defence-industrial collaboration, at the talks which were held in London.
• An MoU on the conduct of bilateral international cadet exchange programmes, and a Letter of Arrangement between the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) on defence collaboration in research and development were signed.

Also read: India – UK relations

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