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Govt working on setting up nationwide ’AYUSH Grid’

New Delhi: The AYUSH Ministry is in the process of setting up a nationwide 'AYUSH Grid' connecting all hospitals and laboratories so that case histories and observations can be collated to generate evidence about the efficacy of the traditional systems of medicine, including Ayurveda, sources said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi too had last week at a Yoga Awards ceremony emphasised on the need to create a homogenous system by setting up 'AYUSH Grid' on the lines of one nation, one tax and one nation, one mobility card. "This will be beneficial for all stakeholders of AYUSH including citizens of the country and in turn will help to achieve various national and international goals in the healthcare sector," Dr Rajesh Kotecha, Union Ayush Secretary had said while signing the pact. "The prime minister had pitched for connecting technology with tradition in the practice of AYUSH when he had announced the government's plans to establish 12,500 centres across India which would provide traditional system of healthcare and medicines.

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