Proposal to set up 50-bedded AYUSH hospitals in all districts
Jammu: Minister for Health and Medical Education, ARI and Trainings Chaudhury Lal Singh today said the Government is keen to promote treatment through Indian System of Medicines (ISM) in the state.
ISM is our heritage and every effort shall be made to modernize the health institutions providing this system of treatment with adequate staff and infrastructure so as to provide the alternative choice of treatment to the people the Minister said at a function organised by Directorate of ISM, here at Ritz Hotel.
Director General ISM, Dr. Abdul Kabir Dar was present on the occasion.
The minister said that Government is planning to establish 50-bedded integrated AYUSH hospital in all the districts of the State. He said creation of manpower and strengthening of existing infrastructure will be taken up. He said National Institute of Medicinal plants will be established in the State.
The Minister informed that instructions have been issued to DG ISM to conduct workshops on conservation, development and marketing of medicinal plants across the state so that the people as well as fresh staff are made fully aware with benefits of ISM. He said AYUSH Nursing Homes/Clinics/Wholesale/Retail shops will be registered and monitored under the health ministry norms.
The Minister said in this regard 438 AYUSH medical officers have been engaged at PHCs, 160 posts of Ayurvedic and Unani medical officers have been created by corresponding reduction of equal number of posts of Assistant surgeons, besides 396 AYUSH Pharmacist have also been engaged under National Rural Health Mission at Primary Health Centers across the State.
Earlier, Lal Singh received detailed appraisal of the different health care activities from Director General ISM and instructed the concerned functionaries to sensitize the people for availing this choice of treatment. He said the Government had set up ISM health centers at district level hospitals, besides primary health centers, where free of cost medicines and other related facilities have been made available to needy patients.
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