An international conference was organised on Friday by Invest Punjab in collaboration with ICSI (International Chamber for Service Industry) on the occasion of Yoga Day to make Punjab a hub of medical tourism.
More than 200 delegates from USA, Britain, Thailand, major industry players, corporate, potential investors and strategists of the wellness industry participated in this conference to discuss, deliberate and develop an Ecosystem making Punjab a Medical Tourism Destination.
In his inaugural speech, Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said that in the modern world every person is becoming mechanical, they desist from doing physical work which is the root cause of every problem. He said that a person who is doing some sort of exercise or performing Yoga everyday is more efficient and energetic.
He made announcement that Health and Family Welfare Department has in principal decided to fill all the vacant posts related to Yoga in order to recruit experts so as to involve every citizen of the state to keep them fit by performing Yoga. The Minister has also given his go ahead to start a certificate course for medical tourism in the state of Punjab.
A Medical Tourism web portal myhealthtrip.com was launched by Sidhu on this occasion. Likewise a Hybrid app MHT and a North Indian’s first e-magazine myhealth trip the first edition of the magazine focusing on wellness and health industry was also launched.
In the second session of the conference, which was presided by D.K Tiwari, Principal Secretary, Technical Education discussions were held on improving the wellness and medical tourism industry in the State of Punjab. Tiwari said that though Punjab has achieved great success in wellness and tourism industry in the last ten years but there is still much scope to take this medical tourism industry of Punjab on global map.
He said that wellness and medical tourism industry could offer plentiful opportunities to the students to earn respectable income. He said that even a 12th pass student after doing a three month certified course can get job in this industry. He said that Skill Development Mission Punjab is offering 33 such different courses to the students.
Kampon Sriwatanakul, Thailand Alternative Medicine Network (TAMN), President and CEO, VITA STEM, Eminent Wellness Expert and Sisopa Riwatthana, Eminent Wellness expert from Thailand were the guest of honour.
