The State / UT Governments are provided Grant-in-aid for procurement of essential AYUSH medicines for AYUSH Hospitals & Dispensaries, AYUSH Co-located facilitiesat Primary Health Centers (PHC), Community Health Centers (CHC) and District Hospital(DH) under National AYUSH Mission (NAM).
Further, provision has also been made for following activities under NAM:
i)Behavior Change Communication (BCC) has been included as a strategy of Mass Media Communication incorporating AYUSH strengths in early prevention of diseases through promotion of healthy diet and life style to be adopted by the community which will be advocated by the states.
ii)Public Health Outreach activity has been included to focus on increasing awareness about AYUSH’s strength in solving community health problems resulting from nutritional deficiencies, epidemics and vector-borne diseases, Maternal and Child Health Care.
ii)AYUSH Gram is a concept wherein one village per block is selected for adoption of method and practice of AYUSH way of life and interventions of health care. In AYUSH village AYUSH based lifestyles are promoted through behavioral change communication, training of village health workers towards identification and use of local medicinal herbs and provision of AYUSH health services.
Further, the Ministry under its Central Sector Schemes of Information Education and Communication (IEC) and International Co-operation (IC) extends financial assistance to State Governments and other reputed Government/Non Governmental Organizations/ Universities for conducting National/International Seminars/Workshops/Symposiums to promote Yoga. In addition, the Ministry carries out mass media campaigns through electronic & print media and AROGYA Fairs for creating awareness amongst the people.
All over the country , the number of Institutes/Attached Hospitals engaged in AYUSH education include 297 of Ayurveda, 9 in Siddha, 46 in Unani and 197 in Homeopathy. Additionally, there are 108 colleges of 54 universities engaged in Yoga education.
Under National AYUSH Mission (NAM), an amount of Rs. 7528.707lakhs was released as first Installment of Grant released during 2014-15 to States/UTs while Rs.10849.565lakhs was released in 2015-16 as Final Payment of Grant of 2014-15 . An amount of Rs.16527.892lakhs has been provided for current financial year 2015-2016 under NAM.
This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH, Shri ShripadYessoNaik in reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today (8 December, 2015).
Courtesy: pib.nic.in
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