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| Sunday, 14 November 2004 |
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Medicina Alternativa global confab in Colombo The forty-second World Congress of Medicina Alternativa will be held in Colombo from November 27 to December 5. Delegates from 142 countries including Brazil, Mexico, the USA, Sweden, South Africa, Czech Republic, Paraguay, China and Taiwan will participate at the Congress. The theme of the Congress will be 'Integration of All Medicines, Integration of all Healing Methods'. Medicina Alternativa also celebrates this year as the Year of the Alfred Nobel Award for Complementary and Alternative Medicines. The Nobel Foundation in Sweden has approved that Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) practitioners are entitled to be nominated by Medicina Alternativa for the Alfred Nobel Prize. The inaugural ceremony will be held on November 27 at the BMICH presided over by the Speaker W.J.M. Lokubandara, who was also a former Minister of Indigenous Medicine. Deshamanya Professor P. R. Anthonis, Albert Schweitzer Award Laurette Professor Luong Minh Dang, Professor Therasa Thu-thy Nguyen Dang and His Holiness Sri Lama Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche will be the guests of honour. The Chairperson of the Congress will be Prof. Anton Jayasuriya. Prof. Edwin Dervisevik of the University of Sports, Ljubyana, Slovenia is in Sri Lanka now to attend the Congress. He is an eminent scholar in oriental and traditional medicine in Europe. He said that traditional and oriental and medical treatment was gaining popularity in Europe. The delegates will visit the oldest Allopathy Hospital and Medical College in Asia, the Samuel Fiske Green Memorial Hospital in Manipay, which is 154 years old. |
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