Team Blitz India
MUMBAI: Maharashtra’s second AYUSH hospital with 30 beds, which was virtually inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has started its outpatient operations department (OPD). The hospital has been developed under the National AYUSH Abhiyan at a cost of Rs 9 crore and its indoor patient facility will be made functional within a month.
The hospital will have independent treatment and therapies like ayurveda, yoga, unani, siddha, and homeopathy, making it a first-of-its-kind facility in the district.
Spread over 4,000 sq m to promote ancient forms of medicine and therapies, which will be available free of cost to patients, the project is a joint venture of the AYUSH Ministry and the state public health department. In this, 60 per cent of the project has been funded by the Central government and the remaining by the state government.
The foundation stone laying ceremony of the project was carried out by the then health minister and now Chief Minister Eknath Shinde in September 2019.
The ground floor of the hospital has a yoga hall, waiting room, record room, canteen, procedure room, doctor’s room, chief doctor’s room, ayurveda room, sanitation house, homeopathy centre, and medical officer room amongst others. The hospital will have mud bath naturopathy therapies, panchakarma, kshar sutra and other AYUSH treatments
