Bhubaneswar: Union health minister JP Nadda on Saturday said 22 new AIIMS are coming up across the country and admitted that there was a shortage of skilled human resource in the health sector. He also said ensuring the highest standards of medical education was a top priority for the government.
“Twenty-two new AIIMS are coming up across the country under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Surakhya Yojana to reduce the regional imbalance in the healthcare and tertiary fields,” Nadda said while addressing the first convocation of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar.
Admitting that there was a shortage of skilled human resources in the health sector at all levels, the health minister said the Centre has planned for a rapid expansion of medical education.
Nadda said as medical education forms the apex of the health care pyramid, it is the quality of graduating doctors and specialists that will determine the quality of services in the country for generations to come.
Many initiatives such as increasing the retirement age of doctors to 65 years, setting up of more medical and nursing schools, multi-skilling of doctors to overcome the shortage of specialists, have been taken by the Centre to improve medical education, he said.
“We are expanding the network of our medical colleges in a big way by upgrading 58 district hospitals to medical colleges. Twenty-four new medical colleges have been announced in this year’s budget. Twenty state cancer institutes and 50 tertiary cancer care centres are also being set up,” he said.
The health minister said the AIIMS will soon introduce campus recruitment in order to retain students passing out of the institutes. He said AIIMS pass-outs are acquainted with the culture of the institute. The attempt is aimed at retaining the best brains of AIIMs in the institute, Nadda said.
“Dear students, young doctors and faculty, I invite you all to join my ministry in further building upon this commitment of our prime minister to upgrade the health care access of the common man, thus taking the well being of our nation to greater heights,” the Union minister said.
Noting that it is a great challenge to produce high-quality healthcare providers at all levels,
Health minister Nadda admits there is shortage of skilled human resource in the sector
Since 2014-15, post-graduate seats increased by over 8,500
1 The health minister JP Nadda said that 24 new medical colleges were announced in this year’s budget. Moreover, 20 state cancer institutes and 50 tertiary cancer care centres were also being set up.
Bhubaneswar: Union health minister JP Nadda on Saturday said 22 new AIIMS are coming up across the country and admitted that there was a shortage of skilled human resource in the health sector. He also said ensuring the highest standards of medical education was a top priority for the government.
“Twenty-two new AIIMS are coming up across the country under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Surakhya Yojana to reduce the regional imbalance in the healthcare and tertiary fields,” Nadda said while addressing the first convocation of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar.
’22 AIIMS coming up to reduce imbalance in health sector’
Admitting that there was a shortage of skilled human resources in the health sector at all levels, the health minister said the Centre has planned for a rapid expansion of medical education.
Nadda said as medical education forms the apex of the health care pyramid, it is the quality of graduating doctors and specialists that will determine the quality of services in the country for generations to come.
Many initiatives such as increasing the retirement age of doctors to 65 years, setting up of more medical and nursing schools, multi-skilling of doctors to overcome the shortage of specialists, have been taken by the Centre to improve medical education, he said.
“We are expanding the network of our medical colleges in a big way by upgrading 58 district hospitals to medical colleges. Twenty-four new medical colleges have been announced in this year’s budget. Twenty state cancer institutes and 50 tertiary cancer care centres are also being set up,” he said.
The health minister said the AIIMS will soon introduce campus recruitment in order to retain students passing out of the institutes. He said AIIMS pass-outs are acquainted with the culture of the institute. The attempt is aimed at retaining the best brains of AIIMs in the institute, Nadda said.
“Dear students, young doctors and faculty, I invite you all to join my ministry in further building upon this commitment of our prime minister to upgrade the health care access of the common man, thus taking the well being of our nation to greater heights,” the Union minister said.
Noting that it is a great challenge to produce high-quality healthcare providers at all levels,
2 The Centre has undertaken amendments in the Graduate Medical Education Regulations and the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations for making common counselling for admission in medical colleges mandatory, Nadda said.
source: DB post
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