AIIMS Bhopal has received a grant of ninety lakh fifty eight thousand rupees from the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India for research on Ayurvedic treatment of Sickle Cell disease. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, Gwalior will also coordinate in this research work.
Prof Dr Ajai Singh, Executive Director of AIIMS Bhopal congratulated the research team and said that AIIMS Bhopal is already working on sickle cell disease and this research will further help to study the effect of Ayurvedic treatment in this disease.
He also said that inspiration for this project came from His Excellency the Governor and today AIIMS Bhopal has received a grant of approximately Rs 90 lakh from the Ministry of AYUSH for this work. Thanking the Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India, he said that Ayurveda is the ancient medical system of India and it has accurate, accessible and cost-effective means of treatment of diseases.
Sickle cell disease is mainly seen in central India. If the results of this project will be in favour, then a safe adjuvant treatment through Ayurveda will be a boon in the management of this fatal disease for the first time in Madhya Pradesh.
In this research a competent team of AIIMS Bhopal including Dr Sachin Bansal from the Department of Clinical Haematology, Dr Danish Javed from the Department of AYUSH, Prof Dr Manisha Srivastava, Medical Superintendent from the Department of Transfusion Medicine and Blood Bank, Dr Garima Goyal from the Department of Pathology, Dr Ashok Kumar from the Department of Biochemistry and Dr Sanjeev Kumar from Community medicine will work together along with the team of Dr BC Rao Assistant Director, Dr Babita Yadav, Dr Amit Rai and Dr Anil Mangal Research Officers from Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), New Delhi.