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Medical scientists and doctors from 140 countries will visit Kitulgala, the pre-historic site of origin of acupuncture, in the course of the World Congress of Integrated Medicine being held in Colombo later this week, a congress communique said.

They will be transported in a fleet of luxury Benz cars especially imported for the purpose.

Acupuncture was practised over 30,000 years ago in Beli Lena cave habitat of Balangoda Humans in Kitulgala, before this healing method reached Europe and China, according to the Congress communique.

The World Congress, which opens at the BMICH, Colombo, on Wednesday, will mark the 40th anniversary of the International Medicina Alternativa organisation. The Director-General of the Post-Graduate Institute of Medicine, Professor J. B. Peiris, Professor Carlo Fonseka and Professor Denis Aloysius are among the distinguished speakers at the congress which will be chaired by Dr. Anton Jayasuriya, the world renowned acupuncturist who, the communique states, has been struck off the rolls of the Sri Lankan medical profession by the Sri Lanka Medical Council.

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