Heal in India is an Initiative of the Government to promote the Medical Tourism in the country. Under this initiative,Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and  Ministry of Ayush has been working with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) and Services Export Promotion Council (SEPC)for developing a ‘One Step’ Heal in India portal for Promotion of Medical Value Travel.

Ministry of Ayush signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), Ministry of Tourism to work together for the promotion of Medical Value Travel in Ayurveda and other traditional systems of medicine.

Ministry of Ayush developed a Central Sector Scheme namely Champion Service Sector Scheme for Medical Value Travel Under this scheme, financial assistance in the form of Interest Subsidy is provided to private investors for the establishment of Super Specialty Hospitals/ Day Care Centres of the systems recognized under The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) Act, 2020 or The National Commission for Homeopathy (NCH) Act, 2020 in FY 2021-22.

Couples of Chintan Shivir were organized by the Ministry of Health and Family welfare to promote Heal in India and Heal by India. Ministry of Ayush has also participated in these Chintan Shivir. Certain action points were identified in this shivir to promote traditional medicine through Tourism in India.

A Round Table and Plenary Session on Heal in India- Medical Value Travel were also organized during Global Ayush Investment and Innovation summit at Gandhinagar, Gujrat to promote India as No. 1 destination for Medical Value Travel.

List of National Institutes under the aegis of Ministry of AYUSH having attached hospitals

S.No.	Name of Institute	Location	Name of the State/UT
1	Institute of Teaching & Research in Ayurveda	Jamnagar	Gujarat
2	National Institute of Ayurveda Jaipur	Jaipur	Rajasthan
3	All India Institute of Ayurveda	New Delhi	New Delhi
4	North Eastern Institute on Ayurveda & Homoeopathy	Shillong	Meghalaya
5	North Eastern Institute of Folk Medicine	Pasighat	Arunachal Pradesh
6	National Institute of Homoeopathy	Kolkata	West Bengal
7	National Institute of Unani Medicine	Bengaluru	Karnataka
8	National Institute of Naturopathy	Pune	Maharashtra
9	National Institute of Siddha	Chennai	Tamil Nadu
10	National Institute of Sowa Rigpa	Leh	Ladakh

 

This information was given by Minister of Ayush Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in a written reply in Loksabha today.

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