{"id":8728,"date":"2018-05-02T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:32:30","slug":"foundation-stone-laid-for-new-opd-block-of-ayothidoss-pandithar-hospital-nis-and-headquarters-building-of-ccrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/foundation-stone-laid-for-new-opd-block-of-ayothidoss-pandithar-hospital-nis-and-headquarters-building-of-ccrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation Stone Laid for New OPD Block of Ayothidoss Pandithar Hospital, NIS and Headquarters Building of CCRS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The foundation stone laying ceremony for the construction of the New Outpatient Department Block of Ayothidoss Pandithar Hospital, National Institute of Siddha (NIS), Chennai, and the Headquarters Building of the Central Council for Research in Siddha (CCRS), Chennai, was held on 02 May 2018 at NIS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The foundation stone was laid by Shri Shripad Yesso Naik, Hon\u2019ble Minister of AYUSH (Independent Charge), Government of India, in the presence of Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shri S. R. Raja, Member of Legislative Assembly, Tambaram Constituency; Prof.&nbsp;Dr.&nbsp;Dhiman, Director General, Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), New Delhi; Prof.&nbsp;Dr.&nbsp;V. Banumathi, Director, National Institute of Siddha; Prof.&nbsp;Dr.&nbsp;R. S. Ramaswamy, Director General, CCRS, Chennai; and Dr.&nbsp;N. J. Muthukumar, Hospital Superintendent i\/c, NIS, participated in the function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposed New OPD Block was intended to strengthen outpatient healthcare services at Ayothidoss Pandithar Hospital, NIS, and improve patient-care infrastructure for Siddha medical services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"787\" data-id=\"8737\" src=\"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Picture1-1024x787.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Picture1-1024x787.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Picture1-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Picture1-768x590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Picture1.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/32202685_1260097810792240_4745173687886413824_n.jpg-1-1024x680.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/32202685_1260097810792240_4745173687886413824_n.jpg-1-1024x680.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/32202685_1260097810792240_4745173687886413824_n.jpg-1-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/32202685_1260097810792240_4745173687886413824_n.jpg-1-768x510.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/32202685_1260097810792240_4745173687886413824_n.jpg-1-1536x1020.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/32202685_1260097810792240_4745173687886413824_n.jpg-1-1920x1275.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/32202685_1260097810792240_4745173687886413824_n.jpg-1.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The foundation stone laying ceremony for the construction of the New Outpatient Department Block of Ayothidoss Pandithar Hospital, National Institute of Siddha (NIS), Chennai, and the Headquarters Building of the Central Council for Research in Siddha (CCRS), Chennai, was held on 02&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Picture1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8740,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions\/8740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}