Ayush hospitals to come up in North East

Ayush hospitals to come up in N-E
June 24, 2011 12:03:02 AM

Pioneer New Service | New Delhi

To ensure large scale promotion of the Indian traditional medicine system in the North East, the Health Ministry has initiated steps for setting up of 50 bedded/10 bedded integrated Ayush hospitals in each of the States in the region.

The mission steering group (MSG) of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) on Tuesday approved setting up of the 50-bedded hospitals at Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura besides in three hilly States namely Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jammu & Kashmir.

For the remaining five North East States (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim and Meghalaya), 10-bedded integrated Ayush hospital have been approved.

“Although, some of the practices of Ayush systems are prevalent in the NE States and above mentioned hilly States, large scale promotion of Ayush systems in these states has remained very limited, mainly on account of existing poor physical infrastructure of this traditional system of medicine,” a senior official from Health Ministry said.

He said that an agreement (MoU) to this effect shall be entered into between Department of AYUSH and the concerned State Government accordingly.