Need to reorient thinking in medical research: Vardhan

Union Minister for Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan today emphasised on the need to 're-orient' the country's thinking on research work especially in the medical fields.
"There is a need to think about the research in the medical fields. We need to re-orient our thinking in the field of research," Vardhan said at a function held at North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Health Institute and Medical Sciences (NEIGRHIMS) here.
According to him, as long as what we do in the laboratory and what we publish in the journal has no practical benefits for mankind in terms of perceptible and medical difference, that kind of research will only have a "theoretical meaning".

"So it is important the new generation who have got innovative ideas, think 'out of the box' to bring a change in the thinking process in the field of medical research," he said.
Stating that the time for routine and casual approach is over, the Minister said, "We have run our country with this casual routine approach for over sixty five years now. Now the country has to look ahead at the younger generation which I termed as 65 difference demographic dividends that we enjoy with a lot of hope. The country needs to further prosper further if it tends to create a better present than its glorious past."

According to him, the first thing is to pin point what the problems area. "We need to sort out those problems and then technologies are transferred to young people and entrepreneurs," he said.
Claiming that whatever research that is happening today is being given to the rest of the world by India, Vardhan said, "All the research being done by the great Indian scientists right from the first century is being translated to various other languages including Arabic and European (ones) during the later stage.