AIIMS like Ayush hospital soon for Delhi

NEW DELHI: The government is all set to build a AYUSH hospital in Delhi, on the lines of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Shripad Naik said on Friday. He said the hospital is expected to be completed in six months and will cater to a capacity of 500 patients. The upcoming six AIIMS hospitals across the country will also have separate AYUSH departments.

“Our mission is to build one AYUSH hospital in each district so that people can take the benefits of traditional medicines. Also, I have written to the PM to post ayurvedic doctors at primary health centers in villages where allopathic doctors are not available,” Naik said.

Highlighting that AYUSH is not a substitute to allopathy, Naik said medicinal practices under AYUSH, and allopathy can be used simultaneously.

In an attempt to promote Ayurveda, yoga and other such traditional sciences, the government has also recently signed pacts with various other countries for cooperation in promotion and research of yoga and ayurveda.

There are a total of 543 colleges currently functional in the country of which 281 are of ayurveda, 191 of homoeopathy, 44 of unani, 18 of naturopathy and nine of Siddha medicine.

Source: ET