Pune: Former- excessive commissioner of India to China and ambassador of India to Pakistan Gautam Bambawale, 64, pressured that nations the world over ought to come collectively to struggle public well being points not like Covid-19 the place nations tried to fight the illness by themselves.

Gautam Bambawale was talking Wednesday after the launch of the Autoimmune Blistering Disease Foundation (AIBDF) – a one-of-its-kind organisation working to unfold consciousness about autoimmune blistering ailments within the Indian subcontinent – at Navalmal Firodia Hall, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI), Law College highway, Pune.

Gautam Bambawale mentioned, “The establishment of the AIBDF is an example of cooperation between Pune, India and Boston, United States of America because doctors from both places have worked together.”

“During the last three years during the Covid-19 pandemic, we had seen the opposite happening. This was a huge public health crisis which was global in nature and yet, different countries shut their doors to other countries and tried to combat the disease by themselves. When the world faced the Covid-19 challenge, the countries did not fight it together.”

“Any global crisis should not be handled in this way; it should be handled in the way we are combating autoimmune blistering diseases, where different countries of the world come together and cooperate to fight such a global challenge,” Gautam Bambawale mentioned.

Dr Abdul Razzaque Ahmed, director, Centre for Blistering Diseases, Boston, and an authority on autoimmune blistering ailments, launched the AIBDF within the presence of actress Mrinal Dev Kulkarni and Gautam Bambawale, who had been the visitors of honour. Trustees of the AIBDF Ashok Suratwala, Dr Sharad Mutalik, Anirudha Bambawale and advocate Jayant Hemade had been additionally current on the event.

Dr Ahmed, who initially hails from Yavatmal, mentioned that there are not any deaths as a consequence of autoimmune blistering ailments now and that analysis has helped within the growth of medicines over the previous 50 years. He additionally underlined that autoimmune blistering ailments are usually not contagious.

“The treatment cost in India is slightly on the higher side. The main reason is the cost of medicines. If pharmaceutical companies reduce the prices of medicines, it will help in the treatment of patients. The need of the hour is also that more research takes place in the field and hence, we should encourage young doctors by offering scholarships,” Dr Ahmed mentioned.

Kulkarni mentioned that persons are unaware about most ailments as well being is a uncared for topic. “Today, the AIBDF has been established and I am sure it will help spread awareness about the disease among patients and the common people,” she mentioned.

The AIBDF, a public charitable belief, goals to create consciousness about autoimmune blistering ailments, information sufferers with autoimmune blistering ailments by way of early analysis and the correct remedy. The AIBDF goals to make monetary assist out there to these sufferers who can’t afford remedy. It goals to create teams for steerage and encourage sufferers to take up remedy.