15.6.2008
The
Ministry of Indigenous Medicine is planning to setup Ayurvedic
centers in Australia, Sweden and Cuba in response to requests
made from these countries and arrangements have been made
to set up four ayurveda centres in Melbourne, Sydney,
Canberra and Perth in Australia.
The
Ayurvedic centers set up in Australia will get the service
of the Ayurvedic doctors and staff while the medicines
required will be provided by the Ministry. The centers
will be managed by Sri Lankans in Australia.
Minister
of Indigenous Medicine, Tissa Karalliyadde speaking at
the inaugural ceremony of the fully automated multi purpose
bottling plant at the Sri Lanka Ayurvedic Drugs Corporation
premises at Navinna said that Ayurvedic Medicinal raw
materials, herbs are now cultivated more extensively in
Sri Lanka through the "Osu Gammana" project
which was launched in 2000.