Baba Ramdev’s Ayurveda College in Hardwar

January 5th, 2010 

Union health and family welfare minister Ghulam Nabi Azad inaugurated the Patanjali Ayurveda College owned by yoga guru Swami Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth and Divya Yog Mandir Trust in Hardwar Monday.

The college will offer degree courses in Ayurvedic medicine and carry out advanced research in herbal therapies and diagnosis of rare diseases.

‘We will start with 50 students, who will be taught how to make herbal medicines, diagnose diseases according to Ayurvedic traditions and select medicinal herbs. The fact that we already have a health infrastructure with provision for 400 internal patients and an outpatients department catering to nearly 1,000 people every day will help. The college will be run in compliance with government norms,’ Acharya Balkrishnaji, vice-chancellor of the college and co-founder of Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust and Divya Yog Mandir, told IANS from Hardwar.

The seer said the ‘objective behind the hospital was to combine modern medical science with the ancient Ayurvedic medicine in India’.

‘We have state-of-the-art equipment, better than many hospitals in the country,’ the vice-chancellor said.

Union food processing minister Subodh Kant Sahay – along with 13 chief ministers from Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Goa and Sikkim – will inaugurate a herbal and organic food park spread over 95 acres in Hardwar.

‘The Rs.500-crore food park will manufacture aloe vera, amla (Indian goosebery), citrus fruits, vegetable and herbal juices and extracts. It will also process 150 tonnes of cereals rich in calcium and iron every day. The park will provide employment to 30,000 people and benefit hundreds of thousands of farmers who will be ensured fair price for their produce,’ a spokesperson for Patanjali Yogpeeth said.

The organisation, which is billing the park as one of the largest natural processed food zones in the world, has entered into an agreement with Uttarakhand and Punjab to source raw material from farmers.

Apollo Hospitals to conduct research in ayurveda

March 15th, 2010 

Ayurveda, the traditional Indian system of medicine struggling to get due recognition oweing to its inadequate scientific validation, has now found a new patron in Apollo Hospitals. The chain will carry out research to establish ayurveda as potent system of medicine worldwide.

‘The Indian system of medicine has faced many roadblocks due to lack of enough research. We are set to carry out scientific study on ayurveda and other systems of medicine,’ Prathap C. Reddy, chairman of the Apollo Hospital chain, told IANS.

He said many countries like the US have claimed that several Indian medicines have heavy metals beyond the permissible limit. Many also claim that these treatments are not backed by scientific validation.

‘Here, we are taking it up. We will conduct research in our hospitals across India and come up with a database. After that we will offer willing patients these treatments,’ Reddy added.

He said Apollo has already tied up with a leading ayurveda house in Kerala.

‘Once we provide the scientific validation, we will set up a chain of ayurveda centres to provide treatment for patients,’ Reddy said.

Commonwealth Games Players to get a taste of Kerala’s massage treatment

                 With an aim to give foreign visitors a taste of famous Kerala massage during the Commonwealth Games, Delhi’s health department had approached Kerala government a couple of months ago for assistance to select masseurs who could be trained in massages that could be used to give relief to tired or injured athletes. Kerala Government, advertised for masseurs & 150 candidates were chosen & trained for games duties.

A team of 150 masseurs trained in therapeutic Kerala ayurvedic massage will cater to around 8,000 sportspersons during the Commonwealth Games. The masseurs, most of whom are either ayurvedic massage therapists or ayurvedic doctors from Kerala, have been selected by the director of Medical Education Ayurveda and principal of Ayurveda Medical College of Trivandrum. They will be now trained in sports injuries by a Pune-based specialist in August.

S Bhattacharjee, director of Delhi Health Services, said the Organizing Committee would need around 120 masseurs while the rest would be kept on standby.

The masseurs will be divided in various teams and will be stationed at the Commonwealth Games Village and event venues. After reaching the capital 10 days before the Games, the masseurs will stay in a hostel facility in Maulana Azad Medical College and Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital complex.

Health minister Kiran Walia said research has shown that masseurs of Indian system of medicine like ayurveda are among the best in the world. She claimed that masseurs specializing in sports-related massages were an important component of the health arrangements for the Games.

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AYUSH hospitals to come up in Manipur

          The central government will help Manipur to develop alternative treatment system through Ayurveda, Yoga and naturecure, Unani, Sidha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH). S. Jalaja, secretary, ministry of health and family welfare, department of AYUSH, told a press conference here today that the Centre had decided to establish nine AYUSH hospitals in all nine districts of Manipur. In the first phase the Centre has earmarked Rs 10 crore for setting up an Ayurvedic college, including a 50 bed hospital in the state. She further said that the Centre was ready to provide funds for establishment of a Homoeopathic college in Manipur if there was a proposal from the state government. The Health Secretary asked the youngsters of Manipur to involve themselves in the plantation of medicinal plants to earn more for their economic development and so as to be able to earn in such an insurgency-prone area. Funds for it would not be a problem, she said.

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