 "Govt to set up research centre for Ayurveda")
The government is planning to set up a nodal research institute for Ayurveda is New Delhi, along the lines of AIIMS. “The AYUSH Ministry is setting up an All India Institute of Ayurveda in Delhi, which is conceived as an apex institute of ayurveda along the lines of AIIMS. It is expected to start working by 2016 and it is the vision of the government to have such hospitals in every state,” said Shripad Naik, Minister of State for AYUSH Ministry.
Highlighting the importance of research in the field of AYUSH, Shripad Naik said, “The status of the AYUSH formulations should be clinically clear to promote them as medicines which will also help to increase their popularity outside India. There has to be an integrated approach to allopathy and AYUSH systems of medicine. It is for this reason that the AYUSH facility will be provided in each of the upcoming AIIMS hospitals in different states. This integrated approach has already been adopted by some of the big private hospitals in the states.”
In addition, the Government is taking the AYUSH system of medicines to the grass root through the network of primary health centers (PHCs) under the National AYUSH Mission (NAM). The government aims to have an AYUSH hospital in every district. Steps have been taken by the Ministry in this direction and proposals are being received from the states, said Naik.
Through this exercise, the government intends to use services of AYUSH doctors, estimated to be one lakh in number, to supplement the existing facilities in the primary health centres where there is a shortage of doctors.
Highlighting the importance of research in the field of AYUSH, Shripad Naik said, “The status of the AYUSH formulations should be clinically clear to promote them as medicines which will also help to increase their popularity outside India. There has to be an integrated approach to allopathy and AYUSH systems of medicine. It is for this reason that the AYUSH facility will be provided in each of the upcoming AIIMS hospitals in different states. This integrated approach has already been adopted by some of the big private hospitals in the states.”
In addition, the Government is taking the AYUSH system of medicines to the grass root through the network of primary health centers (PHCs) under the National AYUSH Mission (NAM). The government aims to have an AYUSH hospital in every district. Steps have been taken by the Ministry in this direction and proposals are being received from the states, said Naik.
Through this exercise, the government intends to use services of AYUSH doctors, estimated to be one lakh in number, to supplement the existing facilities in the primary health centres where there is a shortage of doctors.