The Bhaktivedanta Medical Association (BMA), a global healthcare committee with more than 220 devotee doctors dedicated to providing comprehensive care to devotees on a virtual platform free of cost, successfully launched its first-ever health camp on November 25, 2023, at the ISKCON’s Bhaktivedanta Manor. There were about 700 registrations, with 350 devotees attending the three-hour-long event.
Sundarananda Das (Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal), the Chairman of BMA, explaining the structure of BMA, said, “We have created a virtual hospital covering diverse modalities like Ayurveda, homeopathy, naturopathy, yoga, physiotherapy, emotional wellness, mental wellness, nursing, research, and more, all under one umbrella.”
He continued, “Within the intricate framework of the BMA, a hierarchy of governance unfolds—trustees and advisory boards comprised of venerable Sanyasis and senior devotees, a committee overseeing 22 specialized sub-committees, each a division of healthcare ranging from Neonatology to End-of-Life Care.”
BMA provides healthcare in primarily two ways – education and direct patient care (telemedicine). Education currently is provided by holistic articles on the website (www.bma.healthcare) and by videos, podcasts, and seminars in the future. Direct health care is provided by telemedicine in the form of virtual consultations provided by allopathic teams, ayurveda teams, emotional and mental wellness teams, and diet teams.
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