DEFYING LIMITS Raise medical standards: PM
Puducherry, June 30: Expressing concern over the quality of medical education, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said a “credible regulatory” mechanism should be put in place and a “serious look” given at the curriculum.
“There is a perception of deteriorating quality. We cannot allow this situation to continue. We must put in place a credible regulatory and institutional mechanism to help develop standards in our medical education”, he said in his address at the third Convocation in Jawaharlal Institute of Post graduate Medical Education and Research here.
He said a serious look at the medical curriculum needs to be taken so that doctors are trained to look at health in a holistic manner that goes beyond a narrow clinical and technology-driven approach.
He said health indicators continue to be poor and high infant mortality rates are a cause of serious concern. Despite decades-long family welfare programmes, twothirds of health expenditure was borne by people from out of their pockets, with a large proportion of this expenditure being on purchase of drugs, he added.
— PTI