The National Research Institute of Unani Medicine would be set up in Kheri Gujran village of Haryana’s Faridabad district to provide healthcare facilities to maximum persons, especially in the field of non-communicable diseases, and conduct advanced research in such diseases.
The institute would include a 120-bedded in-patient department, said a spokesman of the Haryana AYUSH Department.
He said that the Chief Minister Manohar lal had approved a proposal to allot land of gram panchayat Kheri Gujran for this purpose.
The institute would be developed as a state-of-the-art research centre with facilities for pre-clinical studies, clinical trials, drug standardisation and cultivation of medicinal plants used in Unani system. It would also offer facilities such as research and geriatric OPDs, specialty clinics and have 120-bedded research hospital, said the spokesman. He said that the institute would have laboratories for bio-chemistry, pathology, radiology and USG, drug standardisation, immunology, pharmacognocy and phytochemistry, besides regimental therapy unit, library, museum, animal house, administrative block and staff quarters.
The required staff and infrastructure would be provided by the Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine (CCRUM), Union Ministry of AYUSH, the spokesman added.