The government will improve the quality and outreach of AYUSH services at all levels, from primary health centres to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Union Minister for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik has said.
He was inaugurating the National Arogya Expo 2015, a fair in complementary and alternative medicine and health care industry, here on Wednesday. “The government will approach UNESCO for considering yoga as a subject of Indian cultural heritage,” he said. India would sign memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with other countries to set up Indian alternative medicine centres. So far, Hungary, Bangladesh, Mauritius, and Nepal had signed the MoUs, Mr. Naik said.
Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar, who presided over the function, said the State AYUSH department would start functioning in a week’s time. He said the process of setting up an Ayurveda University, with its headquarters at Kottakkal, was on. The expo will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
