Physicians welcome inclusion of meditation in health service

City Desk :

The country’s renown physicians have welcomed the government’s initiative to include meditation in the medical treatment as an alternative treatment and opined that it will likely reduce health expenditure.

They called upon the authorities concerned to include meditation in both education and medical curriculum to help people lead a healthy life, according to a press release issued in Dhaka .

The physicians were sharing their views during a scientific seminar on ‘inclusion of meditation as alternative treatment: our responsibility” organised by Quantum Foundation at IDEB Bhaban on the twelfth instant, the release added, reports BSS .

National Professor Dr Shahla Khatun attended the seminar as chief guest while former Dean of the Faculty of Basic Science and Paraclinical Science of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Professor Dr M Iqbal Arslan and founder Chairman of Palliative Care Department in BSMMU Professor Dr Nizamuddin Ahmed were present as special guests.

Chaired by renowned mental health specialist and writer Anwara Syed Haq, the seminar was attended by around 400 physicians of public and private hospitals.

Quantum Heart Club Coordinator Dr Muniruzzaman presented the keynote paper in the seminar.
The guests also unveiled a magazine titled ‘Meditation in physicians’ prescription’. The National Professor said gradual improvement in medical science finds possibility of gene regulation and expressed her view that meditation can help in this connection.
Dr M Iqbal Arslan highlighted impact of meditation in health economy and said government’s significant budget spending for health could be reduced through practicing meditation.