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Need to address challenges of human resources in healthcare sector: Niti Aayog Member
Aug-21-2019

In order to improve healthcare in India, Niti Aayog Member (Health) V K Paul has said that there is need to address the challenges of human resources in the sector. He also said ‘the most difficult journey that we face today is about having the right mix, the right numbers, right quality, right skills and the right distribution of human resources in the healthcare sector.’

Paul also observed that there is shortages of doctors and specialists in the country and the crisis in regards of specialists is even more acute. For this, he said the country needs huge participation from the private sector. He also said ‘we will reach one doctor for 1,000 people by the end of the current term of the government that is 2024.’ He felt that this gap in the human resources can only be met through an aggressive partnership between public and private sectors. He added that with the reforms in the health sector, a consortium of private players can now set up a medical college, unlike in the past when a medical college had to be established by a single entity.

About the government’s flagship Ayushman Bharat scheme, Niti Aayog Member said it has provided a way for working together by both public sector and private sector in providing healthcare to the people of the country. He also said most important highlight of scheme is that it has now finally established ‘One India, one nation, one health sector’. Adding further, he said rise in GDP in percentage terms on the healthcare to 2.5 percent is a national commitment and has been reiterated by the country’s leadership. However, he said ‘we must remember when we have to raise the overall spend on healthcare, it has to come from both centre and states.’  

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