Lok Sabha Question No. 1896 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-06
Subject: Integration of AYUSH  Practices
Ministry: AYUSH
Asked by: Shri E T Mohammed Basheer

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AYUSH

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1896 TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.12.2024

## Integration of AYUSH Practices

1896. Shri E T Mohammed Basheer:

Will the Minister of AYUSH be pleased to state:

(a)  whether  any  measures  are  taken/proposed  to  be  taken  by  the  Government  to  integrate AYUSH practices with mainstream healthcare services in the country;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) whether there is any collaborative projects with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to promote AYUSH-based healthcare in rural areas; and

(d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (IC) OF THE MINISTRY OF AYUSH

## (SHRI PRATAPRAO JADHAV)

(a)  to  (d)  Government  of  India  has  adopted  a  strategy  of  Co-location  of  Ayush  facilities  at Primary  Health  Centres  (PHCs),  Community  Health  Centres  (CHCs)  and  District  Hospitals (DHs), thus enabling the choice to the patients for different systems of medicines under a single window. The engagement of Ayush doctors/ paramedics and their training is being supported by the  Ministry  of  Health  &  Family  Welfare  under  National  Health  Mission  (NHM),  while  the support for Ayush infrastructure, equipment/ furniture and medicines is being provided by the Ministry  of  Ayush  under  National  Ayush  Mission  (NAM),  as  shared  responsibilities.  The State/UT  status  of  co-located  Ayush  facilities  at  PHCs,  CHCs  and  DHs  is  furnished  at Annexure.

Further,  the  health  promotion  and  prevention  is  an  integral  part  of  comprehensive primary  health care that includes counselling for healthy diet and  lifestyle,  marathons, cyclothons, Yoga, meditation, Zumba, celebration of annual health days etc. ensuring wellbeing of  the  community.  To  mainstream  Yoga  into  the  health  care  delivery  system,  regular  Yoga sessions are being conducted at the functional Ayushman Arogya Mandir (AAMs).

Annexure The State/UT status of co-located Ayush facilities at PHCs, CHCs and DHs

| Sl. No.   | Name of the State/UT               |   DH |   CHC |   PHC |   Total |
|-----------|------------------------------------|------|-------|-------|---------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh                     |    9 |   105 |   273 |     387 |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh                  |   16 |    34 |    50 |     100 |
| 3         | Assam                              |   21 |   110 |   364 |     495 |
| 4         | Bihar                              |   36 |     0 |     0 |      36 |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh                       |   18 |    98 |   454 |     570 |
| 6         | Goa                                |    2 |     6 |    22 |      30 |
| 7         | Gujarat                            |    0 |     0 |   868 |     868 |
| 8         | Haryana                            |   21 |   101 |   106 |     228 |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh                   |    0 |     0 |     0 |       0 |
| 10        | Jharkhand                          |   24 |   188 |    97 |     309 |
| 11        | Karnataka                          |   15 |    78 |   375 |     468 |
| 21        | Kerala                             |    0 |     0 |     0 |       0 |
| 13        | Madhya Pradesh                     |   36 |    99 |   285 |     420 |
| 14        | Maharashtra                        |   23 |   238 |    20 |     281 |
| 15        | Manipur                            |    7 |    17 |    78 |     102 |
| 16        | Meghalaya                          |   11 |    25 |    54 |      90 |
| 17        | Mizoram                            |   12 |     9 |    10 |      31 |
| 18        | Nagaland                           |    9 |    20 |     9 |      38 |
| 19        | Odisha                             |    0 |   302 |   858 |    1160 |
| 20        | Punjab                             |   15 |    72 |   100 |     187 |
| 21        | Rajasthan                          |    0 |    52 |   146 |     198 |
| 22        | Sikkim                             |    4 |     1 |     4 |       9 |
| 23        | Tamil Nadu                         |   37 |   388 |   475 |     900 |
| 24        | Telangana                          |    0 |    42 |   352 |     394 |
| 25        | Tripura                            |    3 |    21 |    84 |     108 |
| 26        | Uttarakhand                        |   13 |    53 |    44 |     110 |
| 27        | Uttar Pradesh                      |  102 |   666 |   627 |    1395 |
| 28        | West Bengal                        |    8 |   280 |   368 |     656 |
| 29        | Andaman &Nicobar Islands           |    3 |     4 |    20 |      27 |
| 30        | Chandigarh                         |    1 |     2 |    29 |      32 |
| 31        | Dadra &Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu |    2 |     4 |     9 |      15 |
| 32        | NCT of Delhi                       |    0 |     0 |     0 |       0 |
| 33        | Jammu &Kashmir                     |   13 |    13 |   372 |     398 |
| 34        | Ladakh                             |    2 |     7 |    32 |      41 |
| 35        | Lakshadweep                        |    2 |     3 |     4 |       9 |
| 36        | Puducherry                         |    4 |     4 |    39 |      47 |
|           |                                    |  469 |  3042 |  6628 |   10139 |

Source: as per NHM-MIS database as on 31st March 2024

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