Health needs more care

About author: Meenakshi Gautham and Manish Pant
Reference: Deccan Herald, 19 January 2014
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By proposing a staggering, never-before increase of 10 000 medical seats in existing government medical colleges in five years, the Union Cabinet made a statement that it takes healthcare seriously…. To this end, the government has taken a welcome decision of setting up 58 new medical colleges (with an overall intake of 5800 students) linked with district hospitals in under-served districts. This move should improve the infrastructure and quality of medical services in these hospitals. But it also raises questions about the availability of sufficient good-quality faculty. Analysts in the National Commission of Macroeconomics and Health (2005) have shown that the greatest shortage of medical teachers is in the pre- and paraclinical specialties like anatomy, physiology, bio-chemistry and pathology.

Source: Meenakshi Gautham and Manish Pant, Deccan Herald, 19 January 2014


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