CCRAS-NIIMH Signs MoU with Sevadhi Museum and Indological Research Institute for Digitization of Medical Manuscripts

India, Aug. 14 -- The Government of India has issued a release:

In a significant step towards the preservation, documentation and wider accessibility of India's traditional medical knowledge heritage, the National Institute of Indian Medical Heritage (NIIMH), Hyderabad, under the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), Ministry of Ayush, Government of India, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sevadhi Museum & Indological Research Institute (SEMIRI), Kumaranalloor, Kottayam, Kerala, for the systematic digitization and preparation of a descriptive catalogue of its collection of medical manuscripts.

SEMIRI, run by the Kumaranalloor Ooranma Devaswom, has preserved a vast collection of more than 30,00...