Doc writes to PM to recognise traditional acupuncture science

Ludhiana, January 20

Dr Inderjit Singh Dhingra from Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis acupuncture Health and Education Centre has written a letter to the Prime Minister to recognise the traditional science of Acupuncture as it was successfully practiced in India in a rejuvenated form for the past few decades. Acupuncture is one of the oldest forms of medicine popular mostly in China.

“While WHO suggests for its wider application and development through concerted governmental efforts, acupuncture suffers from under-utilisation and under-development,” said Dr Singh.

He said Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis Acupuncture Hospital was built in memory of Dwarkanath Shantaram Kotnis (great Indian hero- one of the five Indian physicians sent to China to provide medical assistance during the Sino-Japanese War, 1938). — TNS