🔆ICD-11, Traditional Medicine Module 2:
✅WHO has developed a classification series called ICD to classify diseases internationally.
✅The ICD provides information on the worldwide extent, causes and consequences of human disease and death through coded data.
✅The ICD is developed and annually updated by the World Health Organization.
✅The Ministry of AYUSH, in collaboration with WHO, has prepared a classification of data and terminology related to diseases based on AYUSH-ASU systems under the TM2 module of the ICD 11 series.
✅The data and terminology relating to diseases based on Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani Medicine have been included in the WHO ICD-11 classification.
✅With this effort, the terminology defining diseases in Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha medicine has been indexed as a code and included in the WHO Disease Classification Series ICD-11.
✅The Ministry of Ayush has already developed the Code for Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani Medicine through the National Ayush Morbidity and Standardized Electronic Portal (NAMSTE).
✅Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI) is an agency under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that serves as the WHO Collaboration Centre for ICD-related activities.
✅The Ministry of AYUSH has also signed a Donor Agreement with the World Health Organization for the same.
Significance:
✅Inclusion of Morbidity Codes of Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha will give a boost to traditional medicine in a big way.
✅This effort will bring global uniformity in ASU (Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha) medicine in the form of a code of terminology defining diseases.
