Union Minister of Ayush participated in Regional Review Meeting of National Ayush Mission
Budgetary provisions for the NAM Scheme also increased to Rs. 1200 crore
The world is
looking forward for Holistic Healthcare. Today Yoga and Ayush are hoisting
their glory across the world. Stated by Union Minister of Ayush and Ports,
Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal during Regional Review Meeting of Six
states, Bihar, Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh
organized by Ministry of Ayush in Patna, Bihar today.
Ministry of Ayush is
supporting the efforts of State/UT Governments for implementation of different
activities as proposed by them through their respective State Annual Action
Plans (SAAPs) under Centrally Sponsored Scheme of National Ayush Mission (NAM).
NAM is being implemented with the vision and objectives to provide Ayush health
care services throughout the country by strengthening and improving Ayush
health care facilities, to provide informed choice to the needy public. The
Union Cabinet has approved for operationalization of 12,500 Ayush Health and
Wellness Centres (AHWCs) by the Ministry of Ayush through State/UT Governments
as a component of NAM by the year 2023-24.
Ministry of Ayush has
so far released Rs 1712.54 Crores to 07 States (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,
Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal) under NAM since 2014-15.
Ministry has also supported 58 Integrated Ayush hospitals in States till
2022-23 and out of that 14 are operational as reported by them. Out of 12,500 AHWCs, Ministry has
already supported 4235 AHWCs in these 07 States and out of that 3439 are
reported functional by them.
Under NAM, Ministry
has also supported for setting up of a New Ayurvedic Medical College at
Ayodhya, New Homoeopathic Medical College at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh during
2022-23 and Yoga and Naturopathy College at Howrah, West Bengal.
The Union
Minister urged personally to the Ayush team of Uttar Pradesh & West Bengal
to speed up the construction work of Ayush Educational Institutes at the
earliest and make it functional. He requested to State Governments to take up
immediate steps for expedition of construction works of approved integrated
Ayush hospitals and make them functional at the earliest so that people can
avail the Ayush services.
Union Minister also
appealed to the States to emphasis on implementation of Ayush public Health
Programs as included in the NAM guidelines for providing various Ayush
interventions to the community for holistic approach of health. The programs
like Ayurvidya: promotion of healthy lifestyle through Ayush for school
children, Supraja: Ayush Maternal & Neonatal intervention, Vayomitra: Ayush
based geriatric programme, Prevention and management of Osteoarthritis and
other Musculoskeletal disorders, Ayush Mobile Medical units etc. will
strengthen the Ayush systems. State Governments specially Bihar, Uttar
Pradesh, Chhattisgarh are also requested to take up National Program on Ayush
for Morbidity Management and Disability Prevention (MMDP) of Lymphatic
Filariasis on widely basis in prone areas.
On this occasion,
Union Minister of State Dr Munjapara Mahendabhai said “Ministry of Ayush has
National Institute of Homoeopathy at Kolkata, West Bengal and a satellite
institute namely National Institute of Unani Medicine, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
as well as 26 peripheral Central/Regional Research Institutes/Centres /Clinical
Research Units / Drug standardization unit etc. under Research Councils in
participating States. Most of them are present here and they have been
sensitized for providing support to State Governments for implementation of the
different activities and Public Health Programmes under NAM including capacity
building & training of State Programme Management Unit (SPMU)/ Community
Health Officers (CHOs), Telemedicine, sharing of the best practices of the
Public Health Programs, IEC, Monitoring and field visits etc.
Secretary Ministry of
Ayush Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha stated in his speech that National Ayush Mission is
a flagship scheme of Ministry of Ayush being implemented through State/UT
Governments for development and promotion of Ayush systems in the country. With
reference to the last year, the budgetary provisions for the NAM Scheme has
also increased from 800 crore to 1200 crore.
Joint Secretary
Ministry of Ayush Kavita Garg presented a brief about National Ayush Mission
Status of the concerning states. During the regional review meeting along with
Ministers and Secretary Ministry of Ayush Leena Johari, Principal Secretary,
Uttar Pradesh, Pratyay Amit, Additional Chief Secretary, Bihar Alankrita,
Executive Director Ayush Bihar along with other dignitaries were also present
in the event.