The Ministry of Ayush and the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD) signed a MoU for the nutritional improvement of adolescent girls in the age group of 14-18 years through Ayurveda Interventions in a 12-month period.

MOUs and Agreement

The Ministry of Ayush and the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD) signed a MoU for the nutritional improvement of adolescent girls in the age group of 14-18 years through Ayurveda Interventions in a 12-month period. The joint public health initiative for anaemia control among adolescent girls using Ayurveda interventions will be launched in five districts under Mission Utkarsh. The MoU, which was signed in the presence of Ayush Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and WCD Minister Smriti Irani, will cover, in the first phase, five aspirational districts of five states - Assam (Dhubri), Chhattisgarh (Bastar), Jharkhand (Paschimi Singhbhum), Maharashtra (Gadchiroli) and Rajasthan (Dhaulpur). In these anaemia-prone districts, the average prevalence of anaemia is approximately 69.5%. The project will cover approximately 10,000 Anganwadi Centres in the five districts. Irani also announced that the ministry will also take up a joint venture with the Ayush ministry and ICMR for effective interventions like yoga in Polycystic Ovarian Disease (PCOD) among adolescent girls.


      The Department of Indian Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy (ISM&H) was first established in 1995 under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

      ISM&H was renamed as the Department of AYUSH.

     

 

     


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