KATHMANDU, JANUARY 2
The government has been operating the Nagarik Arogya Kendra (Citizen Wellness Centre at 311 local levels across the country.
Director General of the Department of Ayurveda and Alternative Medicine, Dr Basudev Upadhyay, said 311 such centres have been set up this year with the goal of establishing a citizen wellness centre each at each and every local level.
According to him, such centres would be established at all local levels within this year. The Citizen Wellness Centres are being set up to minimise non-communicable diseases like cancer, high blood pressure, cardiac-related issues, diabetes, kidney and respiratory-related and mental diseases as well as obesity.
Dr Upadhyay said that the Ayurvedic Dispensaries at the local level will run the citizen wellness centre. He added that the District Ayurveda Dispensary will assign a focal person at the wellness centre.
The wellness centres will treat the above-mentioned non-communicable diseases and also train people to adopt healthy lifestyle. Similarly, the centres will conduct public awareness programmes on adopting ayurvedic living style and healthy diet. Each centre will form five citizen wellness groups at the local level.
