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India proposes premier health education institutes
Mar 21, 2006, 02:25, Reviewed by: Dr. Priya Saxena
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"The way we have IIMs and IITs, providing quality education in engineering and management, we should have IIHs all across the country that ensure good health education,"
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By IANS,
The country should have a chain of premier medical institutes, "which will be Indian Institutes of Health", on the lines of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Health Minister Anbumani Ramdoss said here Monday.
"The way we have IIMs and IITs, providing quality education in engineering and management, we should have IIHs all across the country that ensure good health education," Ramdoss said while addressing the inaugural session of a five-day seminar on healthcare at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA)
"Out of 242 medical colleges in the country, six states have two-thirds of them. This needs to be changed," he added.
Ramdoss said the government had launched an initiative to set up quality academic institutions in health sector, beginning with one in the north and the other in the south at an outlay of Rs.1 billion.
"Not only the professionals from the field of medicine, but non-medical professionals will also benefit from the new institutes. Bureaucrats, managers and others will also be trained there," he said.
The health minister said the union government planned to boost medical tourism by issuing medical visas to the needy people valid for a year to come to India for treatment.
- Indo-Asian News Service
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