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All systems of medicine to be promoted

Staff Reporter

KOCHI: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said here on Monday that the State Government was committed to encouraging all traditions of medicine. He was speaking after laying the foundation stone for an Ayurveda complex being built by the district panchayat.

Hospital to be shifted

District panchayat president P.S. Shyla said the present Ayurveda hospital would be shifted to Thripunithura temporarily, and the first phase of the complex, estimated at Rs. 7 crore, would be operational in two years.

The panchayat had allotted Rs. 1.75 crore for the phase, which would see the building of a two-storey, 50-bed hospital.

Minister for Fisheries S. Sarma presided over the meeting.

K. Chandran Pillai, MP; Mayor Mercy Williams; and district panchayat vice-president K.N. Sugathan spoke.

`No comments'

After the function, Mr. Achuthanandan told presspersons that he had no comments on a reported remark by K. Muraleedharan, Nationalist Congress Party leader, that the Chief Minister was not addressing the problems facing people in the State.

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