Namaste Launch

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Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launches National AYUSH Morbidity & Standardized Terminologies Portal on 17th of October 2017 in Delhi.

This project is result of contribution of many stalwarts and an extension of many works attempted form time immemorial. Some of most significant and direct contributors are duly acknowledge by the authors. Authors clearly state that the list is not exhaustive, and any omission is unintentional.

  1. Due regards and gratitude for Hon’ble Prime Ministry of India Sh. Narendra Modiji for kindly launching the portal and Hob’ble Ministry of State, Independent Charge, Ministry of Ayush Sh. Shripad Yasso Naik for bale leadership and constant encouragement.
  2. Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, MoA and Sh.P.N. Ranjit Kumar, Joint Secretary, MoA for vibrant steering the project from beginning, launch and successful implementation.
  3. Dr. Rakesh Sarwal, Add. Secretary, NITI Ayog (former JS, Department of Ayush 2020-11); Dr. D.C. Katoch, former Advisor, MoA, W.H.O (2010), Prof. Vaidya K.S. Dhiman, former DG, CCRAS, Dr.N. Srikanth, DDG, CCRAS, Dr. M.M Padhi, DDG (Retd.), CCRAS, Dr. Ala Narayana, Director (Retd.), National Institute of Indian Medical Heritage, Hyderabad for constant support and support. Later successful maintenance and up gradation support by Prof. Rabinarayan Acharya, DG, CCRAS, Dr. P.V.V Prasad, Director (Retd.) CARI, Kolkata, Dr. G.P.Prasad A.D (Ay.), In-charge, NIIMH, Hyderabad.
  4. Due regards to Prof. Dr. Shriram Savrikar, Head of the Department, Rasashasra, Podar Ayurveda College & Chairman of Fundamental Research Group, CCRAS (2016), Prof. M.S. Bhaghel, Ex. Professor - Kayachikitsa, IPGT&RA, Gujarat Ayurved University Jamnagar, Prof. Dr Shrikrishna Khandel, Visiting Proffesor, NIA, Jaipur, Prof .R.B. Dvivedi, HOD (Retd.,), IPGT&RA, Jamnagar for approving the work and guiding throughout.
  5. Due regards to : Dr. Zhang Qi, Coordinator, T&CM, World Health Organization, Robert Jacob, Head, Nenad Kostanjsek, and Stéphane Espinosa from Classifications and Terminologies, Department of Data and Analytics, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Dr. Geetha Krishnan, Technical Officer, Traditional Medicine Division, W.H.O, Geneva and Prof. Dr. Kenji Watanabe, Center for Kampo Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan for constant encouragement and guidance.
  6. Dr.T.Saketh Ram, R.O (Ay.) Principal Investigator-NAMASTE-Portal,OSD (Ayush Grid), Ministry of Ayush, NIIMH, Hyderabad. CCRAS- Dr. Vinod Kumar Lavaniya, R.O (Ay.), Dr. Rakesh Narayanan, R.O (Ay.), Dr. M.M. Sharma, R.O (Ay.), Dr. Adarsh Kumar, AD (Ay.) from CCRAS Hqrs., Dr.Bhuvnesh Kumar Sharma, RARI, Jaipur, Dr. Manohar Gundeti, R.O (Ay.), CARI, Mumbai for testing and feedback on regular basis. Dr. V. Sridevi, R.O (Ay.), Dr. Ashfaq Ahmed, R.O (Unani), Dr.Bisworanjan Das, R.O (Homoeopathy) from NIIMH, Hyderabad for constant support.
  7. Dr. Asit Panja, Assoc. Professor, Samhita Department and Dr. Pawan Godatwar, NIA, Professor, Department of Roganidana, Jaipur for helping complete Ayurveda Diagnostic Classifications. Dr Santosh Nair, Assoc. Professor, Department of Samhita, Ch. Brahm Prakash Ayurved Charak Sansthan, Delhi for painstakingly curating the contents under Ayurveda Terminologies.
  8. Prof. Shakir Zamil, former DG, CCRUM, Dr. Bilal Ahmed, Dr Neelum Quddusi, Dr Ghazala Zaved from Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine (CCRUM), New Delhi for developments under Unani; Dr Kannan, Dr Natarajan, Dr Satya Rajeswaran from Central Council for Siddha (CCRS), Chennai and Dr. Muthukumar, Dr K Suresh, National Institute of Siddha, Chennai from for developments under Siddha
  9. Software development: Sh. Rangamannar.V (Senior Software expert), Mr. P. Vijay Kumar, Ms. Shravanthi, Mr. Vamshi Krishna, Mr.S.Ramesh IT Development team at NIIMH, Hyderabad. Mr. Gurpreeth Singh, Mr, Bhanu, Programmers under Integrated Clinical Decision Support System Project (ICDSS), Mr. Vishal Srivastava, Consultant (IT), Ministry of Ayush, Sh. Sunil Gupta, Scientist-E, NIC, Cell, MoA, Mr. Tarun Aggrawal, Consultant NIC Cell, MoA, Kavita Garg, Joint Secretary, MoA, Dr. Leena Chattre, OSD, Ayush Grid, Ministry of Ayush.
  10. Content Development team: Dr. Preethi, Dr. Shiva Krishna, Dr. Bhagyalakshmi, Research Fellows under ICDSS project and Dr. Rajesh Kommu, SRF(Ay.), Mr.C.Hari Prasad SRF(Medical Records) working under Implementation and Maintenance of NAMASTE portal project at NIIMH, Hyderabad.
  11. All heads of Ayush National Institutes, Research Councils and colleagues from the Institutes who are regular contributing to NAMASTE Portal Statistics.
  12. All experts who have participated in Consultative meetings and guided from time to time for successful completion of the contents and launch.
  13. All the participants of “Sustainable Maintenance of National AYUSH Morbidity Codes and Standardized Terminologies Electronic-portal (NAMASTE) and Capacity Building Programmes” from different states in India.
  14. All the team members from Ayush hospitals, Clinical units from Private and states/UT Governments of Punjab, Delhi, Puducherry and Kerala which are contributing periodically for updating the morbidity statistics under the portal.