Nutrition is the pre-requisite of beauty. There is
peaceful co-existence of Allopathy with Ayurveda, Yoga, Siddha and
Sowa-Rigpa in our country.Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare,
ShriGhulamNabi Azad said this in New Delhi today.
Addressing the 12thConvocation of the VLCC Institute of Beauty and
Nutrition,Shri Azad said we havepluralistic healthcare delivery system
where the Government provides opportunity to every recognized medical
system to develop and be practiced with a view to provide integrated and
holistic healthcare services. We are open to patronizing best practices
and proven standards for the benefit of the people. That is why
Naturopathy is also a recognized system in India. State Governments like
Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar, U.P., Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu,
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have recognized the Naturopathy system.Five
State Governments such as Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Madhya
Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have established Naturopathy Development
Boards to impart registration to Naturopathy practitioners. There are
six Government Naturopathy Hospitals; two in Kerala, two in Karnataka,
one in Andhra Pradesh and one in Tamil Nadu and more than 100
Naturopathy doctors are working in Government under the NRHM scheme in
different States.Besides these, 20 Naturopathy Hospitals having more
than 100 beds and more than 100 having 50 to 100 beds are providing
treatment facilities on private initiative. More than 200 Naturopathy
Clinics are providing day care naturopathy health facilities to the
patients.All these medical systems are being utilized in the national
healthcare delivery system, each to its potential and availability in
different parts of the country.
Shri Azad said India incorporated traditional medicine services in the
public health delivery system since 1960s when AYUSH facilities were set
up under one roof in the Central Government Health Scheme dispensaries.
This process of mainstreaming has been augmented under the National
Rural Health Mission, with co-location of traditional medicine and
homeopathy facilities in the primary health network and capacity
building of AYUSH practitioners in the national programmes of
Reproductive & Child Health, Safe Child Birth, School Health,
Anaemia control and Malaria eradication. For mainstreaming of AYUSH
under the National Rural Health Mission, grants-in-aid amounting to more
than Rs 550 crores have been given to the State and UT Governments for
establishment of new AYUSH facilities in 803 Primary Health Centres, 113
Community Health Centres, 24 District Hospitals and for upgradation of
379 Exclusive AYUSH hospitals and 415 Dispensaries. There are 504 AYUSH
educational institutions including 111 postgraduate colleges, where
about 27,000 students are admitted annually in our country. These
include 16 colleges providing degree level education in Naturopathy and
Yogic Sciences. India has the largest number of traditional and
alternative medicine teaching institutions in the world.
Talking about the VLCC Institute of Beauty and Nutrition,Shri Azad said
this institution was established with a commitment to ensure a better
quality of life for everyone by making health, beauty and fitness
accessible to all sections of the society, boosting people’s confidence
and following ethical and socially relevant business practices.The
success in achieving this vision is clearly apparent now with 49
institutes in 35 cities, making VLCC the largest network of beauty and
nutrition institutes in South Asia. Over 50,000 students nation-wide
have received holistic training, both in terms of technical knowledge
and practical hand-on training in diverse fields, such as Hair
Designing, Media and Professional Make-up, Dietetics, Health and
Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition, Sports and Fitness Nutrition, Child Care
Nutrition, Cosmetology and Spa Therapies. VLCC is now recognized as a
world class training institution which equips its students to meet
global challenges and succeed in a globally competitive environment. The
social initiatives of VLCC for training of the visually impaired
members of the Blind Relief Association, collaborating with the Ministry
of Women and Child Development for training of destitute and homeless
women or supporting the education of challenged children are highly
commendable.
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