Government’s health policy will lay emphasis on Ayurveda

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan laid foundation stone of a Global Museum of Ayurveda and Herbal Medicine at Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Yoga Pitha and said that the government’s health policy is going to lay primary emphasis on the Ayurveda Siddhanta, for the first time since 1947.

World Health Organisation (WHO) has contributed substantially towards the implementation of pharmaco-vigilance in Ayurveda and has given considerable importance to Ayurveda in its activities related to traditional medicine.

The government would work towards enhancing Ayurveda’s global acceptance as evidence-based medicine. Every AIIMS centre will have an indigenous medicine department of which Ayurveda will be a major component. AIIMS Rishikesh will take the lead in this as steps are underway to have a 100-bed AYUSH Hospital and land for medicinal herb cultivation facility for standardized production of medicines. On AYUSH, the government has set up a Committee of Directors to recommend a blue print for the commencement of operations of the yoga training and therapy centre at AIIMS Rishikesh.

The focus on Allopathy at AIIMS needs to make room for alternative and traditional systems of medicine like Ayurveda has caused unease among doctors and health experts both within and outside the institute. All the six new AIIMS will be dynamic institutions of integrated medicine in the years to come. Collocation of Ayurveda with Allopathy in institutes of higher learning will promote inter disciplinary research.

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