Technical consultancy organisation Kitco Ltd has been chosen as a consultant for setting up an International Research Institute of Ayurveda (IRIA) at Kalliyad in Kannur at a cost of Rs 300 crore. It is being set up by the Kerala Government under the National Ayush Mission. Kitco has to submit a detailed project report in three months.
The project involves setting up a research centre, hospital building, herbal garden, museum building, residential accommodation for staff and scientists, procuring equipment, lab facilities, guest house and plant building. The centre is intended to do research in rehabilitative medicine, curative and preventive medicine. The project will come up in 200 acres and the total built up area will be 68,000 sq.m.
The second phase of the project involves setting up of ayurveda hospitals at all districts in Kerala that confirm to the world standards in diagnosis and treatment of various diseases. Setting up of the international ayurveda institute will open a new chapter in ayurveda treatment and research in the State with the most modern infrastructure for testing and development of new medicines, Cyriac Davies, Managing Director, said.
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