NEIAH to provide good quality medical graduates in traditional
medicine, generate employement and promote tourism in the North East: AYUSH
Minister
The Minister of State for AYUSH Shri Shripad
Yesso Naik formally inaugurated the North Eastern Institute of Ayurveda and
Homoeopathy (NEIAH), an
autonomous Institute under Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India, in Shillong, Meghalaya today. With this, it
became the second Ayurvedic College in the North East Region with a Homeopathy
college and the only Central Academic Institute of Ayush.
Expressing his pleasure in dedicating the NEIAH
to the nation, Shri Shripad Yesso Naik was hopeful that this prestigious Institute
will cater to the need of all the states of the North East. ‘The primary aim of
the Institute is to produce quality human resource in the area of AYUSH in
general, particularly in the Ayurveda and Homeopathy along with the Yoga
systems”, Shri Naik said. The AYUSH Minister said that the establishment of
this Institute will solve the problem of scarcity of doctors in remote areas of
the North Eastern regions to a great extent as it will produce quality medical
graduates in the stream of Ayurveda and Homeopathy; and thereby it will
suitably help in implementing and improving the execution of national health
policies.
Appreciating the abundance of rich flora in the
region and presence of folk and traditional health care practices, the Minister
said that the knowledge of this traditional healer is to be preserved, need to
be on a validated based on ethno botanical and scientific research with
practical suitability for clinical practices. He was confident while adding
that a serious involvement of this Institute in research and development will
also explore herbal-agro based industry and ultimately promote the cultivation
of medicinal plants in this region, which are most climatically suitable for
large number of medicinal plants from high altitude to mid level altitude of
the hilly areas.
The NEIAH will also work with priority to
popularize Panchakarma and Yoga along with production of para-medical staff for
development of skill for youth of this region, the minister said. Shri Shripad
Naik added, “Promotion of Panchakarma therapy for curative, preventive and
promotional areas not only boost Health care sector in government and private
sector but it may be amalgamated with health tourism in the areas like Shillong
for promoting health tourism industries”.
Wishing the people of the North East a Merry
Christmas and a Happy and prosperous New Year, the minister ended his speech by
adding that NEIAH will be the latest contribution to the already rich academic
atmosphere of Shillong and that this step once again reiterates the fact that
development of North East India is the priority of the present Union
Government.
Minister of Health & F.W, Govt. of Meghalaya Smt. Roshan Warjri
in her speech expressed her gratefulness to the Union government for providing
an Institute of this stature which the region has long yearned for. She said
that government of Meghalaya has always promoted the spirit of Ayurveda and
Homeopathy; and that this has always been part of mainstream public health system
of the state. With the introduction of Rasthriya Bal Sawasthya Karykram (RBSK)
under National Health Mission these streams have assumed greater importance,
she said.
The Director of NEIAH Prof (Dr) P K Goswami
earlier in his inaugural speech said that the Institute will be a unique institution which will be independent and
collocated beside NEIGRIHMS with multi-speciality, where education and health
care facilities through Ayurveda & Homoeopathy will be provided under one
platform.
The NEIAH has started functioning with one College of Ayurveda and one
College of Homoeopathy from the academic session 2016-17. The Institute
admitted 50 candidates each for BAMS (Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine &
Surgery) and BHMS (Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine & Surgery) courses
which commenced from 30th November, 2016. The Institute is
affiliated to the North Eastern Hills University (NEHU), Shillong for both
these courses. The seats are reserved for the states of North Eastern Region
along with 24 (twenty four) seats under the All India Open Seats Quotas.
The NEIAH is presently running with OPD and IPD (Ayurvedic &
Homoeopathic) with qualified specialist doctors with all diagnostic and
laboratory facilities. Free Panchakarma therapies along with free laboratory
diagnostic facilities are also available. At present a 60 bedded Ayurveda
Hospital and a 20 bedded Homoeopathy Hospital are functional.
Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha), Shri Vincent Pala; Joint Secretary to
Ministry of AYUSH, Shri Anurag Srivastava; Additional Chief Secretary to
Government of Meghalaya, Shri Yeshi Tsering and other senior officers of Ministry
of AYUSH and the Meghalaya Government were present at the function.
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