Aiming to transform Uttar Pradesh into a medical tourism hub in India, the Yogi Adityanath Government has proposed a purse of Rs 113.52 crore in the budget for establishing AYUSH University in Gorakhpur.
Believing that Ayurveda can play a crucial role in establishing UP as a medical tourism destination, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is focusing on the ancient mode of treatment.
The state's first AYUSH University named after Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath is under construction on a 52-acre area at a cost of about Rs 268 crore. The foundation stone of the university was laid by President Ram Nath Kovind on August 28, 2021.
Besides, a government Ayurvedic college is also being set up in Ayodhya under AYUSH Mission Scheme. Under this scheme, 50 bedded integrated AYUSH hospitals are being established in Unnao, Shravasti, Hardoi, Sambhal, Gorakhpur and Mirzapur.
Uttar Pradesh’s Minister of AYUSH, Food Safety and Drug Administration, Dayashankar Mishra, said, "The government intends to bring Ayurveda and other alternative medicine disciplines (Greek, Homeopath, Siddha) at par with Allopathy."
"In this direction, work is being done expeditiously and separate hospitals for Ayurveda, Homeopathy and Unani are being built. There will be hospitals of these three streams of medicine on the same campus and a total of 13 hospitals are being built," Mishra said.
The AYUSH minister thanked Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for making a provision of Rs 113.52 crore in the budget for setting up of Gorakhpur AYUSH University and said as a result of this, students would not have to go out to study any discipline of medicine elsewhere.
Even in this advanced era of Allopathy, close to 80 per cent people take the help of Ayurveda for primary treatment.
The Yogi government is the first government to decide and set up super speciality hospitals in the bordering and other areas of the state for ensuring better health infrastructure. The government has decided to establish medical colleges on inter-state and international borders in the state, due to which the number of referral cases will come down significantly and Uttar Pradesh will become a hub of medical tourism.
For this, the Yogi government has proposed a fund of Rs 25 crore in the budget for the 2022-2023 fiscal.
