Sonowal inaugurates Ayush multispeciality hospital

Mangaluru: Union minister of ports, shipping & waterways and minister of Ayush Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated a 50-bed Ayush multispeciality hospital, in the Wenlock District Hospital premises in the city on Saturday.
The hospital was sanctioned in 2016, and was completed at an estimated cost of Rs 9 crore in 2020, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, its launch was delayed. The hospital will have an Ayush OPD, and in future there will be advanced special treatment facilities. The treatment modalities in ayurveda panchakarma, jalouka (leech therapy), Kshara sutra and Abhyanga therapy are available at the centre. In naturopathy, hydrotherapy, acupuncture, acupressure, colour therapy, magnetic therapy and physiotherapy will be available. In unani, the centre will offer dhalak, hijama and so on, said Mangaluru City South MLA D Vedavyas Kamath in his presidential address.
He added that more facilities will be provided at the centre in future.
In Udupi
Earlier, during the day, the minister said that of late ayurveda and other traditional medicine systems are widely recognised.
“The acceptability of ayurveda can be improved further, through more research, scientific validation and findings,” he said, after inaugurating the new Rathnashree Arogyadhama hospital in Kuthpady.
He added that the ayurveda field needs more research activities, as there is growing demand. Increase in the number of foreign students who are opting for ayurveda is a testimony to the fact that the Indian system of medicine has been receiving more acceptability. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi set up the separate Ayush ministry in 2014, and accorded it cabinet status predominantly to do research,” he said.
“There are a lot of herbal plants with medicinal value in India, and scientific research in the area is the need of the hour. It is because of sincere efforts by our ancestors, that ayurveda has been accepted globally,” he added
Shobha Karandlaje, Union minister of state for agriculture and farmers’ welfare, said the significance of organic food and ayurveda has gained prominence across the world.