New Delhi: Union Minister Prataprao Jadhav announced on Monday that special medical stores will be established in every tehsil across the country to ensure the adequate availability of AYUSH medicines.
The Union AYUSH Minister also discussed efforts to give due recognition to Ayurvedic medicines derived from traditional knowledge.
"The traditional knowledge of Ayurveda has been passed on from generation to generation. There are very good medicines in Ayurveda, but they have no recognition. We are wondering how these drugs can be recognised," he told PTI here.
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According to the PTI report, he said, "Only a few AYUSH medicines are available in common medical stores, due to which patients and doctors prescribing these medicines face problems. The government wants to ensure AYUSH drugs come into the market in abundance after research. These medicines should be available everywhere. For this, we are trying to open at least one special medical store of AYUSH medicines in every tehsil of the country".
AYUSH hospitals are also being opened at the tehsil level, said the minister, who also visited medical institutes in Indore, Dewas and Ujjain and reviewed facilities there.
team had earleir reported that as of June 30, 2024, the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) has authorized 7.37 crore hospital admissions totalling ₹1 lakh crore, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health. The scheme is active across 33 states and Union Territories. According The leading states in which Ayushman cards have been created under the PMJAY scheme include Madhya Pradesh with 402.5 lakh cards, Maharashtra (280 lakh), Karnataka (171.5 lakh) Jammu and Kashmir (85.9 lakh), Telangana (82.5 lakh), Tamil Nadu (73.6 lakh) and Meghalaya (19.76 lakh).
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