Ayurveda Goes Beyond Treatment And Promotes Wellness: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that Ayurveda goes beyond treatment and promotes wellness in the 9th World Ayurveda Congress. He inaugurated three National Ayush Institutes - All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), Goa, National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM), Ghaziabad and National Institute of Homoeopathy (NIH), Delhi.

These three institutes will further strengthen research and international collaborations and will also facilitate affordable Ayush services for people. Developed at a total cost of about Rs 970 crore, these institutes will increase the intake of students by around 400 along with the addition of about 500 hospital beds.

PM said that one of the key resolutions of the Amrit Kaal is to ensure global welfare through India’s scientific, knowledge and cultural experience and Ayurveda is a strong and effective medium for that. Referring to India's G-20 Presidency, the Prime Minister informed about the theme of G-20 ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future.

Modi said “Ayurveda goes beyond treatment and promotes wellness”, as he pointed out that the world is shifting towards this ancient way of life after going through various changes in trends. The Prime Minister expressed delight that a lot of work with regard to Ayurveda is already underway in India.

Stressing the need to continuously work toward the documentation of 'Data Based Evidence', he said that we had Ayurveda's results as well as effects in our favour, but we were lagging behind in terms of evidence. He emphasised that our medical data, research, and journals have to be brought together to verify every claim on modern scientific parameters.

Throwing light on the work done in this regard, the Prime Minister mentioned the creation of an Ayush Research Portal for Evidence-Based Research data. He informed that data from about 40,000 research studies are available so far, and during the covid period, we had about 150 specific research studies related to Ayush.