Two-Day Consultative Meeting Held on WHO-ICHI Framework and National Health Intervention Codes for Traditional Medicine

• WHO-ICHI = International Classification of Health Interventions, the WHO's companion to ICD-11 that codes what is done to a patient (procedures, therapies, regimens) in a globally standardised vocabulary.
• NHIC = National Health Intervention Codes — India's parallel four-level hierarchical coding directories for Ayurveda (NHICA), Siddha (NHICS), Unani (NHICUM) being built by the Ministry of Ayush for integration into ICHI.
• A two-day online consultative meeting (25-26 May 2026) chaired by Ayush Secretary Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha reviewed the draft codes — a milestone toward globalising ASU traditional medicine and enabling insurance/data interoperability.
• UPSC relevance: GS-II (health, international institutions), GS-III (S&T, IPR of traditional knowledge), Prelims (Ayush institutions, WHO instruments).