Rs 4.3 crore AYUSH hospital inaugurated in Jaipur

JAIPUR: On the occasion of National Ayurveda Day, the integrated AYUSH hospital was inaugurated by health minister Raghu Sharma at Pratap Nagar here on Tuesday.
The hospital, built at a cost of Rs 4.36 crore, will have facilities of treatment in ayurveda, homeopathy and unani.
It took 21 months to construct the building where outdoor, indoor, diagnosis and facilities of medicines will be provided.A separate unit for pregnant women and a separate unit for geriatric population has been prepared at AYUSH hospital. Also, facilities for yoga has been developed.
Such AYUSH hospitals are also coming up Ajmer, Bhilwara, Bikaner, Sikar and Churu.
Sharma said Rs 3.39 crore will be spent on equipment and furniture in the coming days.
Ayurveda for physical and mental health, says Union minister
Union minister of AYUSH Sarbanand Sonowal on Tuesday announced release of Rs 260 crore for expanding the infrastructure of National Institute of Ayurveda’s satellite centre of Panchkula in Himachal Pradesh.
He was taking part in the 6th National Ayurveda Day celebrated at the National Institute of Ayurveda (NIA). He said, “Ayurveda can play an important role in raising awareness among the general public about the necessity and importance of leading a disease-free, healthy and long life, both physical and mental. The potential of ayurveda in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and how it can contribute significantly to lower the burden of non-communicable diseases in India is immense. There is an urgent need to raise awareness about the strength of Ayurveda treatment as India has a rich resource for plant-based medicines along with an ancient glorious history of practicing Ayurveda Shashtra.”
Rajasthan health minister Raghu Sharma said, “Ayurveda is integral to Rajasthan and it’s culture. We have been practicing it for ages. This year’s theme, Ayurveda for Poshan, couldn’t be more relevant to address the issue of malnutrition and sedentary lifestyle. The theme should resonate across the country to bring about a change in people’s lives and for this we should strengthen the research in this field.”
Sanjeev Sharma, director and vice chancellor of National Institute of Ayurveda said, “National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur, organized this two-day event with gaiety and enthusiasm and the series of insightful initiatives were attended and well appreciated by the ministers, policy makers, administrators, scholars not only from ayurveda but from other fields as well.”