New Delhi: Tibetan spiritual leader, the
Dalai Lama said there was a need to make more medical
facilities available for millions of people in rural areas of
India and asked hospitals to help extend services to villages.
Inaugurating an institute of metabolic and bariatric
surgery at the Max Hospital in the national capital, the Nobel
Peace Prize winner said: "For a billion population, India
still needs to develop a lot of facilities, particularly in
rural areas".
"Hospitals must try to extend, through training and other
means, medical facilities to remote areas," he said.
The Dalai Lama also advocated the need for teaching
compassion and basic human values to people through secular
education and said India should take a lead in this field.
"Being a country of secular traditions, the likes of
which have not been seen in many countries, India should take
a lead in developing an education system that teaches
compassion and basic human values with secular ethos without
taking recourse to religion," the Dalai Lama said.
He also suggested that there was scope for greater
cooperation between modern medicine systems, Indian
traditional medicine and Tibetan traditional medicinal forms.
The Dalai Lama inaugurated the Max Institute of Minimal
Access, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and the Max Cancer
Centre, the first of its kind centre in India where patients
will be able to avail the benefit of a complete neurosurgical
and radiation oncology solution at one place.
Bureau Report
First Published: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 20:40