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v. To enhance and strengthen the infrastructure of AYUSH educational

institutions.
b) Components: AYUSH services and AYUSH educational institutions

a) AYUSH Services: The main objective of AYUSH services is to enhance
coverage of health care system through cost effective AYUSH Services

by focusing on core competency areas of AYUSH through upgrading
AYUSH Hospitals and Dispensaries, colocation of AYUSH facilities at

Primary Health Centres (PHCs), Community Health Centres (CHCs),
District Hospitals (DHs) and setting up of 10 bedded/ 30 bedded/ 50

bedded Integrated AYUSH Hospitals. Further, it also aims to operationalise
a network of AYUSH Health & Wellness Centres to provide services

based on holistic wellness model embedded in AYUSH principles and
practices, so as to empower masses for “self-care” to reduce the disease

burden, and out of pocket expenditure. It is also envisaged in the reduction
of communicable/non-communicable diseases through targeted public

health programmes under AYUSH system of medicine.
b) Activities of the AYUSH Services under National AYUSH Mission:

Financial assistance will be provided to the State/ UT Governments for
the following Core/Essential Activities:-

i. AYUSH Health & Wellness Centres: Details provided in the Chapter I
ii. Co-location of AYUSH facilities at PHCs, CHCs and DHs

iii. Supply of essential drugs to Government AYUSH Hospitals, Government
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Dispensaries and Government/Government aided Teaching

Institutional AYUSH Hospitals
iv. Upgradation of existing standalone Government AYUSH Hospitals

v. Upgradation of existing Government/Panchayat/Government aided
AYUSH Dispensaries/ Construction of building for existing AYUSH

dispensary (Rented/ dilapidated accommodation)/ Construction of
building to establish new AYUSH dispensary

iv. Setting up of up to 10 bedded/ 30 bedded/ 50 bedded integrated
AYUSH Hospitals

vii. AYUSH Public Health Programmes:
a. National Programme for Prevention and Management of

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