Fiji, Dec. 18 -- WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific Dr Saia Ma'u Piukala has warned that global health systems are fundamentally out of balance, despite major medical and scientific advances.

In a statement on X following the first plenary session of the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Summit in Delhi, which he chaired, Dr Piukala said the central message was clear.

"Balance within the body, balance within societies, and balance between people and the planet."

Drawing on traditional medicine systems, including those in the Pacific, Dr Piukala said health and wellbeing have long been understood as depending on balance between mind and body, humanity and nature, and the individual and community.

"Yet today, ironically in an a...