Lok Sabha Question No. 5673 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-03-27
Subject: Integration of AYUSH Healthcare Centres
Ministry: AYUSH
Asked by: Dr. Alok Kumar Suman

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AYUSH

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5673 TO BE ANSWERED ON 27.03.2026

## Integration of AYUSH Healthcare Centres

5673. Dr. Alok Kumar Suman:

Will the Minister of AYUSH be pleased to state:

(a)  whether  any  steps  have  been  taken  by  the  Government  to  integrate  AYUSH  services  with primary healthcare centres, if so, the details thereof;

(b) the number of AYUSH doctors deployed in Government hospitals;

- (c) whether standard treatment protocols have been developed, if so, the details thereof; and

(d) the allocation of funds for AYUSH integration along with the outcome of such integration so far?

## 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  choice  to  the  patients  for  different  systems  of  medicines  under  single window.  The  engagement  of  Ayush  Doctors/paramedics  and  their  training  is  supported  by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) under National Health Mission (NHM), while the support for Ayush infrastructure, equipment /furniture and medicines is provided by Ministry of Ayush under National Ayush Mission (NAM) as shared responsibilities.

Mainstreaming of Ayush has been taken up in 13,249 Ayush facilities co-located under NHM (6,302 PHCs, 3,191 CHCs, 475 DHs, 3281 other health facilities) as an initiative towards strengthening  evidence-based  integration  of  Ayush  System  and  to  scale  up  Ayush  services across the country for providing health care services to the community. In addition to this Ayush doctors are also deployed for various allied programs like Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK), National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular

Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS) as well as other Public Health Programmes and their services are  being  used  as  per  the  felt  need  by  providing  appropriate  training  and  orientation.  Also,  a total  of  24,183  Ayush  doctors,  2,265  Ayush  paramedics  and  3,404  Ayush  Pharmacists  have been  deployed  in  the  States/UTs  with  NHM  funding  support.  Details  of  number  of  hospitals where Ayush services are co-located, State/UT-wise is furnished at Annexure.

Further,  to  support  evidence-based  clinical  practice  and  facilitate  coordinated  care, Standard  Treatment  Guidelines  (STGs)  for  Ayush  systems  has  been  developed  by  the  Ayush Vertical  under  the  Directorate  General  of  Health  Services  (DGHS),  MoHFW  for  six  common musculoskeletal  disorders  and  five  common  metabolic  disorders.  Following  their  publication, national-level Master Trainer programmes have been conducted in collaboration with the Central Health Education  Bureau to support capacity building and facilitate cascading training programmes across States and Union Territories.

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Annexure Number of hospitals where Ayush services are co-located, State/UT-wise

| S. No   | State/UTs                          |   DH |   CHC |   Other than CHC at or above block level but below district level |   PHC |   Other health facilities above SC but below block level |   Total |
|---------|------------------------------------|------|-------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|-------|----------------------------------------------------------|---------|
| 1       | Bihar                              |   36 |     0 |                                                                 0 |     0 |                                                     1348 |    1384 |
| 2       | Chhattisgarh                       |   18 |    98 |                                                                 0 |   454 |                                                        0 |     570 |
| 3       | Himachal Pradesh                   |    0 |     0 |                                                                 0 |     0 |                                                        0 |       0 |
| 4       | Jammu &Kashmir                     |   13 |    14 |                                                                 0 |   373 |                                                      571 |     971 |
| 5       | Jharkhand                          |   21 |   188 |                                                                 0 |    97 |                                                      225 |     531 |
| 6       | Madhya Pradesh                     |   36 |    95 |                                                                 0 |   275 |                                                        0 |     406 |
| 7       | Odisha                             |    0 |   351 |                                                                 0 |   886 |                                                        0 |    1237 |
| 8       | Rajasthan                          |    2 |    56 |                                                                 4 |   127 |                                                        1 |     190 |
| 9       | Uttar Pradesh                      |   91 |   691 |                                                                 0 |   687 |                                                       31 |    1500 |
| 10      | Uttarakhand                        |   13 |    53 |                                                                 7 |    44 |                                                        0 |     117 |
| 11      | Arunachal Pradesh                  |   16 |    34 |                                                                 0 |    50 |                                                        5 |     105 |
| 12      | Assam                              |   18 |     7 |                                                                 4 |    71 |                                                      500 |     600 |
| 13      | Manipur                            |    7 |    17 |                                                                 1 |    85 |                                                        0 |     110 |
| 14      | Meghalaya                          |   11 |    25 |                                                                 0 |    54 |                                                        0 |      90 |
| 15      | Mizoram                            |   12 |     9 |                                                                 1 |    10 |                                                       38 |      70 |
| 16      | Nagaland                           |    9 |    20 |                                                                 0 |     9 |                                                        0 |      38 |
| 17      | Sikkim                             |    4 |     1 |                                                                 0 |     4 |                                                        0 |       9 |
| 18      | Tripura                            |    3 |    21 |                                                                11 |    84 |                                                        0 |     119 |
| 19      | Andhra Pradesh                     |    9 |   105 |                                                                 0 |   273 |                                                        0 |     387 |
| 20      | Goa                                |    2 |     6 |                                                                 2 |    22 |                                                        1 |      33 |
| 21      | Gujarat                            |    0 |     0 |                                                                 0 |   868 |                                                        0 |     868 |
| 22      | Haryana                            |   22 |   102 |                                                                 0 |   106 |                                                        5 |     235 |
| 23      | Karnataka                          |   20 |   190 |                                                               139 |   163 |                                                        0 |     512 |
| 24      | Kerala                             |    0 |     0 |                                                                 0 |     0 |                                                        0 |       0 |
| 25      | Maharashtra                        |   23 |   238 |                                                                 0 |    20 |                                                        0 |     281 |
| 26      | Punjab                             |   22 |    66 |                                                                18 |    87 |                                                        8 |     201 |
| 27      | Tamil Nadu                         |   37 |   388 |                                                                 0 |   475 |                                                        0 |     900 |
| 28      | Telangana                          |    3 |   100 |                                                                 0 |   449 |                                                        0 |     552 |
| 29      | West Bengal                        |   13 |   295 |                                                                54 |   387 |                                                       95 |     844 |
| 30      | Andaman Nicobar Islands            |    3 |     4 |                                                                 0 |    20 |                                                        0 |      27 |
| 31      | Chandigarh                         |    1 |     2 |                                                                 2 |    33 |                                                        0 |      38 |
| 32      | Dadra &Nagar Haveli and Daman& Diu |    2 |     1 |                                                                 1 |    14 |                                                        1 |      19 |
| 33      | Delhi                              |    0 |     0 |                                                                 0 |     0 |                                                      208 |     208 |
| 34      | Ladakh                             |    2 |     7 |                                                                 0 |    32 |                                                        0 |      41 |
| 35      | Lakshadweep                        |    2 |     3 |                                                                 0 |     4 |                                                        0 |       9 |
| 36      | Puducherry                         |    4 |     4 |                                                                 0 |    39 |                                                        0 |      47 |
|         | TOTAL                              |  475 |  3191 |                                                               244 |  6302 |                                                     3037 |   13249 |