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Ayurveda Department Setting Up 91-Ayurveda Hospitals
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 9, 2013: The Ayurvda Department has decided to set up 91-ayurveda hospitals and herbs collection and processing centre in each development region. To this end, the Department has taken permission from the Ministry of Health and Population and proposed budget demand with the Finance Ministry.
Director General at the Department Professor Dr Kaladevi Bhandari said foundation stone was laid to a building in Dhangadhi for the herbs collection and processing centre while a land was being searched in Janakpur for the same purpose.
Similarly, the Department is to set up seven-ayurveda hospitals in Tarai while five in the hilly region. Each hospital will have 15 beds.
Process to renovate the ayurveda hospitals of Dang, Ilam, Chitwan, Butwal and Kathmandu has been forwarded to the Division of Medical Science under the Health Ministry. Division Chief Dr Tirtha Raj Burlakoti said the Ministry has given top priority to the renovation of the hospitals the department recommended for.
Meanwhile, Director General at the Department, Dr Bhandari said the Department and the Health Ministry were positive to address the demands put forth by Nepal Ayurveda Health Workers' Society. The Society has demanded the installation of ayurveda health workers as per 2063-BS Act, immediate establishment of 91-ayurveda hospitals, and herbs collection and processing centres in each development region, renovation of the dilapidated building and others.
The Ministry has formed a talk team under the coordination of Joint-Secretary Kedar Bahadur Adhikari to address the demands. Secretary to the Ministry has urged the agitating Society to postpone the sit-in and seek agreement through dialogue. The Society members have been staging sit-in at the Department in Teku, Kathmandu for a week. (Source: RSS-gorkhapatraonlie.com)
