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| Azad warns private medical colleges against using touts for recognition | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, FEB 17: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has warned against touts approaching various controlling bodies for medical learning to seek recognition for new medical and dental colleges.
Sources say that the Minister took this exception after reports that certain persons who called themselves close to him have been approaching medical and dental councils to oblige new private colleges imparting medical education.
According to sources, Azad wrote a letter a few days ago saying that he never authorised any person to facilitate recognition or any other clearance for medical or dental colleges from any governing or controlling body for medical education.
He also said in his letter that stern action would be taken against those found indulging or resorting to such a practice. He urged for help in identifying such culprits so that action could be taken against them.
In another development Azad today told Parliamentary Consultative Committee on Health here today about the steps being taken by the Ministry to take health care to remotest rural corners of the country.
He said that to cure minor ailments that account for about 80 percent morbidity in villages a new health corps could be raised with three to three-and-half year training.
Earlier, there has been criticism of such a move since this was thought to be discriminatory to rural areas since the new health corps would not be equipped with specialists’ training.
Like in the past Azad tried to allay fears before MPs, saying efforts were afoot to augment number of trained specialists in health care by training about 5,000 more specialist doctors a year.
Under the new rural health care programme being shaped by the Ministry, cases of serious ailment could be referred to specialised health care centres run in cities by the Government.
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