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| Thursday, 27 November 2003 |
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Alternative medicine healers eligible for Nobel Prize The World Congress of Integrated Medicine was hosted by Medicina Alternativa to celebrate its anniversary. The plenary sessions were held at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall for 5 days from October 27.Delegates from 125 countries attended the Congress. The largest group of delegates numbering 101 came from India. China was also well represented. Dr. P. R. Anthonis, a surgeon for all seasons opened the scientific sessions by lighting the traditional lamp and welcoming all the foreign doctors to Sri Lanka. His grateful admirers presented him with a golden knife encrusted with 5 element jewels for his life-long services to humanity. Orations on the theme "The Pitfalls of Integration of Medicines" were delivered by Prof. Dr. J. B. Peiris, Consultant Neurologist, Prof. Dr. Carlo Fonseka, Dean and Consultant Physician Physiologist and Prof. Dr. Denis Aloysious, Consultant General Practitioner. Two hundred clinical workshops were carried out at Kalubowila, Institute of Acupuncture after the Congress. There were several medical discussions including the procedure to award a Nobel Prize in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) from next year. The Nobel Foundation in Sweden has now conceded that Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) practitioners are entitled to be nominated for The Alfred Nobel Prize according to his last will. After the end of the Conference all the delegates were escorted to Beli Lena where they visited the archaeological site of the cave of the Balangoda Man (Homo sapiens sapiens Balangodensis). Where he practised acupuncture 30,000 years ago even on animals (for example, to tame elephants). An all-night pirith ceremony was conducted by His Holiness Sri Lama Gangchen Rinpoche of Tibet at the Medicina Alternativa Health Centre at Kitulgala to bring peace to Sri Lanka and the World. Health Minister P. Dyaratna MP and Madam Dayaratna were the Chief Guests at the official opening ceremony. Ministers W. J. M. Lokubandara MP, John Amarathunga MP and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksha MP also graced some of the Congress sessions. The Chairman of Medicina Alternativa presented four of his latest publications to all the foreign delegations. The delegates passed a vote of thanks on Prof. Anton Jayasuriya for making all Complementary and Alternative Medicine healers (CAM practitioners) eligible for The Nobel Prize from the year 2004. |
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