NEW DELHI, INDIA, USA, January 25, 2008: The Indian government approved the setting up of an All India Institute of Ayurveda in New Delhi, on the lines of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. It will focus on fundamental research, drug safety evaluation, standardisation, quality control, and scientific validation of Ayurvedic medicines.
The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The institute will offer post-graduate and doctoral teaching and have a 200-bed research and referral hospital to facilitate clinical research. It would be initially set up as an autonomous registered body of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, with the objective of raising it to the status of deemed university in 10 years.
The top priority of the institute would be to develop quality standards and safety data on Ayurvedic drugs. It will generate standard treatment protocols and remedies for the management of national and global health problems for which conventional medicine do not offer satisfactory solutions. The institute will collaborate with institutions engaged in education and research in diverse systems of traditional medicines in countries such as Japan and South Korea.