MCI has failed Indian Healthcare- Niti Ayog calls for Enactment for National Medical Commission

The Aayog also alluded to the poor remuneration of government medical practitioners. "Health professionals in the public sector areinadequately compensated and motivation levels are extremely poor. Fair compensation in the private sector, e.g., for nurses, is also a challenge."

Observing these major issues that currently plague the medical sector, the Niti Aayog called for complete reform the governance of medical, nursing, dentistry and pharmacy education in the country with its very first recommendation being the Enactment the NMC Bill, 2017.

It also called for Revamping the AYUSH, nursing, dentistry and pharmacy councils along the lines of the NMCBill, 2017. Some of the other policy level reforms put forward by the Niti Aayog include

Medical Dialogues team had recently reported that to address the shortage of doctors in the country, the Aayog has suggested creating conditions to facilitate import of doctors, especially those of Indian origin working abroad, and also deploying teachers from universities abroad as visiting professors at AIIMS or NIEs while linking at least 40 per cent of district hospitals with medical colleges.

It also suggested developing framework for deployment of doctors and specialists from the private sector to government hospitals on a visiting or honorary basis and expanding the system of Diplomate of National Board (DNB) and Diplomas from College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPS).

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