Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Varsity opens lab on Siddha drugs

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University has set up a laboratory to help in standardisation and quality control for Siddha drugs, Vice-Chancellor Meer Mustafa Hussain said on Monday.

Stressing the need to standardise formulations and put in place a system of quality control in the Siddha system, he said the lab was established at a cost of Rs.30 lakh. Siddha students could take up research in the laboratory, he said, speaking at a scientific seminar and workshop organised by the Siddha department.

The university also planned to open an AYUSH hospital, which would offer outpatient departments for all Indian systems of medicine and homeopathy in a single building on the Guindy campus.

The proposal was sent for financial clearance. A 2.5-acre herbal garden had been set up on the university campus.

The long-pending plan to have a university college was in its final stages, he said. The Finance Ministry’s clearance was awaited for making the Chengalpet medical college as the university college. .

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