CCRH, Sri Ramachandra Institute sign MoU for homoeopathy research in anaesthesia
Chennai, Nov 6 (TNT): The Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH), under the Union Ministry of AYUSH, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (SRIHER), Chennai, to undertake a research project on the role of homoeopathic medicines in emergence from general anaesthesia.
The MoU was signed on Friday at the institute’s Porur campus for a fundamental research project titled “Exploring the Role of Clematis Erecta and Clematis Vitalba in Modulating Emergence from General Anaesthesia”.
The study aims to examine the potential role of the two homoeopathic medicines in modulating the process of recovery from general anaesthesia.
The project will be fully funded by the CCRH under the Ministry of AYUSH, the institute said.
The CCRH delegation was led by its Director General Dr Subhash Kaushik. Dr Harleen Kaur, Scientist-II and project coordinator, Dr Kolli Raju, Consultant in Homoeopathy, and Dr D. Karthikeyan, Research Officer (Scientist-III), were among those present.
Representing SRIHER were Chairman and Director of Cardiac Care Centre Prof. Dr S. Thanika Chalam, Registrar Prof. Dr S. Senthil Kumar, Dean (Research) Prof. Dr P. Venkata Chalam and General Counsel Dr T. A. Srinivasan.
The research team also includes Dr Bhaskaran Jegadish, Principal Investigator and Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai; Dr V. Gayatri, Site Principal Investigator; and Dr Lakshmi Sundaram, Co-Principal Investigator and Associate Professor at SRIHER.
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