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24/07/22 05:57 AM IST

Bal Raksha Mobile App

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  • Union Minister of Ayush Shri Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated Vaccination Centre for children at the All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA).
  • He also launched the Bal Raksha mobile app, which is aimed at creating awareness of paediatric preventive healthcare through Ayurveda intervention amongst parents.
Bal Raksha Mobile App
  • It aims to raise awareness on paediatric preventive healthcare through Ayurveda intervention amongst parents.
  • The app will also collect feedback from parents regarding the impact of the kit on their children's health and immunity. 
AIIA 
  • The All India Institute of Ayurveda, an autonomous organisation under Ministry of Ayush, aims at bringing synergy between the traditional wisdom of Ayurveda and modern tools and technology.
  • The Institute has 12 specialty departments, 30 OPD units with state-of-the-art inter-disciplinary research laboratories and an international collaborative centre for global promotion and research in Ayurveda.
  • Ayurveda is the oldest system of medicine and health science dating back to more than 3,000 years.
  • During Covid times, AIIA played a major role by treating patients at the Covid Healthcare Centre in sync with its mission of ‘care with compassion’.
Source- PIB 

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