The Ministry of AYUSH tweeted and announced a mechanism to support short-term research projects for evaluating the impact of AYUSH interventions/ medicines in the prophylaxis and clinical management of COVID-19.
Those hospitals and institutions (working with COVID-19 cases) which do not fall under the AYUSH establishment (extramural research category) can send in their proposals. The proposals should be related to evaluating the role and impact of AYUSH interventions/medicines in the prophylaxis and clinical management of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease.
However these project proposals should be maximum of 6 months duration. These proposals should have cleared Institutional Ethics Committee(IEC) clearance. Such Projects will get the support of Rs 10.00 lakhs. This is to meet the expenditure on engaging AYUSH clinicians, technical manpower, laboratory investigations and related contingencies.