Modi to inaugurate global ayurveda conference

Update: 2014-10-21 22:09 GMT
In an attempt to revive the ancient medicine, the union health ministry is all set to hold a four-day-long mega World Ayurveda Conference from 6 November. While giving the details of the world-level congregation, union health minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday said that 4,000 delegates besides health ministers of several countries and states will attend the conference. The conference
will be inaugurated by prime minister Narendra Modi.

The health minister said it is Modi government’s ‘dream’ to accord Ayurveda its ‘glorious place’ in the medical world and his ministry will set up a separate regulatory body for Indian medicines, which besides homeopath come under Ayush department.

The All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) coming up at Jasola in Delhi will admit the first batch of post-graduate students during academic year 2015-16 and have a 200-bed, seven-storey referral hospital which will begin admitting patients in six months, he said.

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