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Human Resources Health Bill to be introduced in Parliament soon | Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Friday said a bill for setting up a National Council for 'Human Resources in Health' will be introduced in Parliament soon. Addressing students at the 38th convocation
ceremony of the All India Institute of Medical Resources here, Dr. Manmohan Singh
said: "The bill will seek to create an enabling environment that will address
issues of quality, quantity and equitable distribution of medical education resources.
Dr. Manmohan Singh said India needs many more health professionals, of different
categories, to fill the huge short fall in the health workforce. Many of our medical
colleges are deficient in the learning resources needed to train specialists.
"AIIMS, and similar institutions which are leaders in medical education, have
to show the way ahead. They should develop strong distance learning programmes.
They should assemble a repository of learning resources which can be easily accessed
by undergraduate and postgraduate students all across India," he added. Highlighting
the health policy of his government, Dr. Singh said: "In recent years, the Government
of India has adopted a more inclusive and holistic approach towards providing
health security in our country, emphasizing therein the importance of improved
sanitation, nutrition and clean drinking water." "The challenges are particularly
acute in our rural areas. Whether it is child mortality, immunization coverage,
maternal mortality or awareness of HIV-AIDS, rural populations lag far behind
their urban counterparts. This is partly due to inadequate availability of health
services in rural areas but it is also a reflection of the lower levels of education
and income which are important social determinants of our nation's health,' he
added. Dr. Manmohan Singh further said that we have tried to address the critical
lacunae of inadequate public provisioning for critical health services. "The Eleventh
Five Year Plan envisaged an increase in public expenditure on health to at least
two per cent of GDP. This percentage was below one per cent of our GDP at the
start of the Eleventh Plan and has increased to only 1.1 per cent in 2009-10 according
to the Mid-Term Appraisal of the Planning Commission," he added. Saying that in
India as well as globally, there is a growing sense that medical education needs
a revamp to adapt it to contemporary needs and realities, Dr. Manmohan Singh said
the need of the hour is to produce professionals who address health not only from
the perspective of the individual patients but as part of a team integrated into
the larger health system. "Inter-disciplinary and health system connectivity have
to be the key coordinates on which medical education has to advance. In the future,
it is not biology alone that will drive medical care," he added.
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