The world’s oldest medicines system celebrates birthday of 70-year-old young NHS at the Palace of Westminster

A specially made vegetarian cake was cut on 21^st June 2018 at the Houses of Commons, celebrating the 70^th birthday of Britain’s National Health Service and 4^th UN Int’l Yoga Day by the All Party Parliamentry Group – Indian Traditional Sciences.  Co-Chairman Bob Blackman MP, aided by Hon. Srinivas Gotru Director of The Nehru Centre and Minister in-Charge of Media & Cultural Relations at the High Commission of India in UK and Hon. Sugeeshwara Gunaratna the Acting High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in UK, Amarjeet S Bhamra Secretariat APPG Indian Traditional Sciences accompanied special guests Mrs Velia Nader, Mrs Lakshmi Vyas, Prof Venkata Joshi, Prof Madan Thangavelu, Dr Mahesh Mathpati, Rajni K Saberwal, Khushboo Mehta along with Cake Artist Ms Lumbini Bafna from Crumbs Eggless to cut 15-inch square vanilla with raspberry, blue ombre rosette with edible toppers cake shared by all the dignitaries and participants. Mrs Swapna Toley from Vegan Artisans UK Ltd kindly bought hundred and fifty small boxes of especially handmade healthy energy bites.

Yoga is a philosophy that cares for all. The NHS can no longer handle the pressure of an aging population, some with multiple medical problems. The spectrum of diseases is changing – child obesity, mental disorders, addictions and dementia.  The NHS has to think in terms of lifestyle management, and it is here where healthy Life/Mind style therapies of Indian Traditional Sciences like Ayurveda and Yoga can be extremely useful.