The Ministry of Ayush, the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have called for proposals to establish integrative health research centres at the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) under its extramural programme.
The Ayush-ICMR Advanced Centre for Integrative Health Research scheme is aimed at harnessing the mutual understanding and research environment between different systems of medicine, leading to integrative health research.
The proposal comes against the backdrop of the Union government’s bid for traditional Indian medicine to be included on the World Health Organisation list. The inclusion of Ayurveda and related systems on the WHO list will provide them access to a common language that allows health professionals to share standardised information across the world.
