The State government is trying to set up a world-class institute in Ayurveda, Minister for Health K.K. Shylaja has said.
She was speaking after releasing the Government Ayurveda College’s 125th anniversary souvenir and inaugurating a seminar on drawing up a road map for Ayurveda research here on Tuesday. The Minister said the institute would be a centre of excellence that would focus on world-class treatment, new discoveries, patents, and medicinal plant cultivation. Talks had been held with the Union government on setting up the centre.
The Minister said the Ayurveda college should form a master plan for improvement of facilities as part of the State government’s health project ‘Aardram.’ Funds could be procured from the Kerala Infrastructure Development Board. The college should also make efforts to improve research at the institution. She said the district ayurveda medical officers had been told to make master plans for making the Ayurveda hospitals in their district high-tech. Ayurveda dispensaries should be upgraded into hospitals, and dispensaries started in villages.
The Minister called for setting up a medicinal plant garden in every panchayat. V.S. Sivakumar, MLA, National Health Mission director Kesavendrakumar and Ayurveda Education Director P.K. Ashok were present.
