On December 25, the birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna former Prime Minister Late Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Department of AYUSH will organise mega AYUSH health camps in all 52 districts of the state.
In this, free medicines will be distributed after treating patients with Ayurveda, Homeopathy and Unani systems. Minister of State for AYUSH (Independent Charge) Ram Kishore Kavre gave instructions to the departmental officers in a meeting held at Mantralaya on Tuesday regarding the setting up of the camps. Progress in departmental schemes was also reviewed. Principal Secretary Ayush Shri Prateek Hajela was also present.
Minister of State Kavre also gave instructions to start research centres in all government AYUSH colleges of the state soon. He said that all necessary facilities will be made available for the research centres by the state government.
Minister of State Kavre asked the departmental officers to collect information about experienced Vaidyas in each district. Their conference will be organised in the coming month of January. Progress was also reviewed in the Devaranya Yojana being run in the state. Minister of State Kavre also gave instructions to the departmental officers to mark land for setting up five huge medicine parks in the state. He said that more and more varieties of medicinal plants would be planted in these parks.
Minister of State for AYUSH Kavre instructed the divisional officers to conduct surprise inspections of the AYUSH centres operating in the division. It was told that 362 health wellness centres are being operated in the state. Action is being taken to start 200 new centres approved earlier. Apart from these, approval has been given by the Central Government to start 200 more health wellness centres in the state.