Overview
National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM) Bangalore is as an autonomous organization under
the Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India working since 2004. This Institute is being
developed as a model of post graduate, teaching, training and research in Unani System of
Medicine.
The campus now houses an Academic Block, Hospital Building, Library, Pharmacy,
Administrative Block, Herbal Garden, Animal House, Guest House, Indoor Games Hall, Hostels,
Residential Blocks and several other units.
The Institute offers post graduate courses in Ten disciplines; Moalajat (Medicine), Ilmul Advia
(Pharmacology), Tahaffuzi wa Samaji Tib (Preventive and Social medicine), Ilmul Qabalat wa
Amraze Niswan (Obstetrics & Gynaecology), Ilmul Saidla (Pharmacy), Kulliyat (Basic Principles),
Ilaj bit Tadbeer (Regimenal Therapy), Ilmul Jarahat (Surgery), Amraze Jild wa Tazyeeniyat (Skin
& Cosmetology) and Mahiyatul Amraz (Pathology). This Institute has the credit to start PhD
course from the session 2014-15 in Unani Medicine for the first time in this country. Presently
institute offers PhD programme in two disciplines; Moalajat (Medicine) and Ilmul Advia
(Pharmacology). The Institute regularly organizes academic events like CME, Workshops,
Seminars and Guest Lectures by eminent scholars. Faculty members are deputed to various
training programmes to update their technical and professional skills. The Institute also
collaborates with premier scientific Institutions like NIMHANS Bangalore, Al-Ameen College of
Pharmacy Bangalore to enhance teaching and research standards.
The Hospital has an OPD wing and a 180 bed IPD with separate wards for male and female
patients. Clinical services are provided to the patients from general and speciality OPDs for skin
diseases, GIT and Hepatobiliary Disorders, Neurological, Psychiatric and Geriatric Care. The
hospital also provides the facilities of family planning, nutritional advice for obese, hypertensive,
Diabetic patients.
The Regimenal Therapy (Ilaj Bit Tadbeer) Centre of the hospital has Massage, Cupping,
Leeching and Hammam Unit. Neuro-rehabilitation Centre caters to the needs of the patients
suffering from neurological disorders e.g. stroke, myopathy, epilepsy, motor-neuron disease,
Parkinsonism, hemiplegia & paraplegia etc. Though the hospital provides Unani treatment it is
also equipped with up to the mark Diagnostic Laboratories of Pathology, Biochemistry, Radiology
& Ultrasonography. Hospital also provides health care facilities to socioeconomically weaker
groups at their door steps by regularly organising health camps.