The ministry started to provide additional funds to allopathy-based health institutions across the country after it introduced free healthcare policy a year ago. The additional funds were provided to these hospitals as compensation for the amount that used to be collected from the entry fee charged to the patients visiting health institutions. But the Ayurveda-based health institutions have been denied the reparation.
Besides the supply of free medicines, the ministry has been supporting 35 District Hospitals, 180 Primary Health Care Center, 699 Health Posts and 3,131 Sub-health Posts. However, 293 Ayurveda Service Centers are not getting compensating money though free free medicines are being provided.
“The lack of the monitory support threatens the survival of Ayurveda health centers,” says Dr Shyam Mani Adhikari, the president of Ayurveda Doctors’ Association. There are two national level Ayurveda hospitals. He said patient ration per Ayurveda service center in a year is Rs 10,000.
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