Ayurveda centres to be set up overseas

Ayurveda centres will be set up in Australia, Sweden and Cuba shortly.

Minister of Indigenous Medicine and Acting Minister of Cultural Affairs, Tissa Karaliyadde said that requests were made to the ministry to set up ayurvedic centres in those countries and arrangements have been made to set up four ayurveda centres in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Perth in Australia.

He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the fully automated multi purpose bottling plant at Sri Lanka Ayurvedic Drugs Corporation premises at Navinna.

The Minister said that ayurveda doctors, staff and medicine will be provided to the centres which will be managed by Sri Lankans in Australia.

“Rs. 128 million has been invested during the last four years for the development of the sales division and the refurbishing project of the factory.

The progress of the corporation is vital to achieve higher production and sales targets of the corporation which has a history of 40 years, he said.

The minister said that Ayurvedic Medicinal raw materials - herbs are cultivated in Sri Lanka through the “Osu Gammana” project which was launched in 2000.

The “Osu Gammana” project and the other activities aimed at developing ayurvedic medicine are being implemented.