KOLLAM AYURVEDA HOSPITAL

KOLLAM AYURVEDA HOSPITAL

P.K. Gurudasan, MLA, inaugurated a new X-ray and a mini surgical unit at  Kollam District Ayurveda Hospital here on Saturday14th July,2012.District panchayat president R. Gopalakrishna Pillai inaugurated a ‘panchakarma’ unit of the hospital.Mr. Gurudasan said he would allocate Rs.10 lakh from his MLA fund for the development projects of the hospital. He called for taking steps to make ayurveda a more effective branch of medicine.Mr. Gurudasan urged the district panchayat to go ahead with the project to cultivate medicinal herbs at Palliyathuruthu Island, near Munroethuruthu, by taking 6.5 acres of land on lease from Railways.The Palliyathuruthu Island is owned by Railways.

He suggested that medicinal herbs be grown on two or three acres of land within the Government Guest House compound at Asramam in the city close to District Ayurveda Hospital.Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar would visit District Hospital and Government Victoria Hospital for Women and Children in the first week of August to review the progress of development projects. Mr. Pillai said District Ayurveda Hospital would tap the potential of medical tourism. The target group would be mainly those who reached the State for panchakarma treatment.Its proximity to the Adventure Park, Asramam Maidan walkway, lake and beach tourism, and the four-lane road in the city were the other advantages of the hospital.The State government had made a budgetary allocation to upgrade District Ayurveda Hospital to a 100-bed hospital. A Rs.70-lakh project of the district panchayat to construct 10 air-conditioned rooms in the hospital would be completed in September.A restaurant for serving nature cure recipe-based food would be constructed at the hospital at a cost of Rs.40 lakh. A mini surgical unit had been set up with the aim of providing ‘Agnikarmam’ and ‘Ksharakarmam’ facilities to patients, he said.The sports ayurveda research cell of the hospital would also be expanded, he said.

Prof. John Kurakar