India, July 10 -- Union Health Minister JP Nadda will lay the foundation stone for the ICMR Centre for High Altitude Medicine and Public Health Research at Keylong in Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh on July 11.

The centre, being set up by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) under the Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, will upgrade ICMR's existing field station at Keylong into a full-fledged, multidisciplinary hub for research, innovation and capacity-building focused on India's high-altitude and climate-sensitive regions.

The Himalayan ecosystem, with its high altitude, extreme climatic conditions, difficult terrain and rising climate variability, poses distinct public health ch...