Click to play videoNew Delhi: Top of the line private hospitals are being invited by the Health Ministry to set up medical colleges in partnership with the Government. The Ministry has finally found a way out to create new medical college infrastrucutre. With corporate backing, these colleges will come up in existing district hospitals.
- A district hospital with 300 beds will be allowed 50 MBBS seats
- To further increase the number of seats, the private players will be required to increase the number of beds
- For every five hospital beds added, 1 more student will be enrolled
Health Secretary, Naresh Dayal says, "We are keen on the plan. We want to invite private companies, but the Medical Council of India has to change its regulations for that."
The Health Ministry knows that this is the only way they can increase the number of medical colleges in states facing a health care crisis - especially Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. That's why Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad believes the problem needs to be addressed in totaliity without delay.
The ministry wants to:
- Double the post graduate seats in already existing medical colleges
This intervention by the Ministry of Health is targeted at improving health care facilities in NRHM focus states. After coming up with several sops in the rural sector for doctors, the idea now is to create more specialists using the existing set up.
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