Union Minister of AYUSH and Ports, Shipping & Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal and Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare and Chemicals & Fertilizers, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya will launch Ayush-ICMR Advanced Centre for 5 Integrative Health Research (AI-ACIHR) at 4 selected AIIMS and  Multicentre clinical trial on Anaemia today.  Both the Ministers will also launch of Indian Public Health Standards for Ayush healthcare facilities and participate in 27th Convocation of Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth.

CCRAS under Ministry of Ayush and ICMR has undertaken a research study on Anaemia entitled “Efficacy and safety of Punarnavadi Mandura alone and in combination with Drakshavaleha compared to iron folic acid in the treatment of moderate iron deficiency anaemia among non-pregnant women of reproductive age group: a community-based three arm multicenter randomized controlled trial.  "The study will be carried out at 8 different sites namely “MGIMS Wardha, AIIMS Jodhpur, NITM Bengaluru, RIMS Ranchi, KEM Hospital Research Centre, AIIMS New Delhi, AIIMS Bhopal, and AIIMS Bibinagar”.

The Indian Public Health Standards for Ayush Health Care facilities aims to lay down uniform Standards & quality infrastructure, Human resource, medicines etc. By adopting these standards, the States and UTs will able to extend the quality Ayush health care services to the deserving population. The fundamental aim is to augment preventive, promotive, curative, palliative, and rehabilitative services within the public health domain, emphasizing uncompromising quality. A pivotal principle within the National Health Policy (NHP) 2017 is the incorporation of Pluralism.