Punjab Government has decided to set up Ayurvedic De-Addiction Centre at Amritsar as a pilot project. Besides, the Health and Wellness Centers would also be opened in 117 ayurvedic dispensaries.
For the Ayurvedic De-Addiction Centre, the State Government has sent a proposal to the Union Ministry of AYUSH. “If this project is approved by the Central Government, Punjab Health Department would establish Ayurvedic De-Addiction Centres across the State after assessing the success of this pilot project,” said the state Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Wednesday.
Sidhu added that the Ministry of AYUSH has, in principle, decided to open 117 Health and Wellness Centres in Ayurvedic dispensaries in which services of mother and child health care, anaemia, respiratory diseases, skin diseases etc can be treated with the Ayurvedic pattern of medicine.
Sharing the information at an event to hand over the appointment letters to newly-recruited 102 Ayurvedic medical officers, Sidhu also announced that the Health Department has sent another proposal to recruit 98 more Ayurvedic Officers.
“All newly appointed AMOs would be placed at Government Hospitals and Dispensaries after imparting special training on July 31, while the recruitment of 16 more AMOs is under process,” he said.
Sidhu, in his keynote address, said: “There are currently 463 Ayurvedic dispensaries operating in rural areas of the State and 47 in urban areas in which medicines are being supplied regularly and more than 31 lakh patients are being treated free of cost.”
To further strengthen the Ayurvedic system of medicine in the State, an international level ‘Arogaya Fest’ would be organised in which special health camp will be arranged to provide best healthcare services under Ayurved procedure.