The facility will not only work for Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha or Sowa-Rigpa, but will also focus on traditional medicines and therapies used across the globe, such as in Africa, Arab, Islamic and Chinese healing practices.
The project was officially launched this week by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus.
By 2024, the sprawling land, spread across 35 acres on the highway from Jamnagar towards popular Hindu pilgrimage site Dwarka, is planned to be converted into a multi-floor, hi-tech and world-class infrastructure facility.
Another official, also involved in the designing of the project, said: “The upcoming centre will have research centres, data labs, IT labs, centre for learning cultures and biodiversity, administration block and auditoriums apart from several other rooms for multiple purposes.”
HOW IS THE DESIGN OF THE BUILDING BEING VISUALISED?
The building design, according to both sources, is visualised on the functionalities of the global centre which is divided into four areas — evidence and learning, data and analytics, sustainability and equity, and innovation and technology.
“The departments will be divided based on the objectives of the centre. For instance, a department for research synthesis and educational training programmes can fall under evidence and learning,” the second official quoted above explained.
“It is expected to have more than 100 rooms and multiple large auditoriums and conference halls,” said a government official involved in the discussions. “The research departments are likely to be divided on the basis of WHO’s regions that separates the traditional medicines country- or region-wise.”
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