The MCD has seven Panchkarma Hospitals under its aegis. Each of these hospitals needs at least five to seven massage therapists; the MCD, however, has only ten therapists in all for the hospitals, none of them trained professionally for giving massages.

However, with massage therapy becoming popular in the city, the Corporation plans to bring in expert therapists and also plans to train its own masseurs. “Earlier, not many people were aware of the massage therapy. That is not the case any more. And since Kerala is known to have the best Ayurvedic therapies in the world, we want our own masseurs to study the massage styles used in Kerala and implement them in Delhi,” said V K Monga, Chairman of the Municipal Health Committee.