Vice President Calls for opening Medical education more to Private Sector
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"After all who is private (sector)? They are our own people. But the only thing is you must have proper regulation"- the VP Stated
Chennai: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday batted for "opening up" the private sector in medical education, but stressed the need for regulation to ensure transparency, accountability and quality.
He said while the system was expanding and the government, as well as the private sector, was focusing on increasing the number of medical colleges, "the essential question we need to ask ourselves is about the quality of medical education."
"I feel the time has come that we should open up. We have already opened up. We have to open up further to the private sector. Let there be a competition between private sector and public sector," he said in his address at the convocation of Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University,
"After all who is private (sector)? They are our own people. But only thing is you must have proper regulation," he said.
Striking a note of caution to authorities, he, however, said "regulation should not become strangulation."
Chennai: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday batted for "opening up" the private sector in medical education, but stressed the need for regulation to ensure transparency, accountability and quality.
He said while the system was expanding and the government, as well as the private sector, was focusing on increasing the number of medical colleges, "the essential question we need to ask ourselves is about the quality of medical education."
"I feel the time has come that we should open up. We have already opened up. We have to open up further to the private sector. Let there be a competition between private sector and public sector," he said in his address at the convocation of Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University,
"After all who is private (sector)? They are our own people. But only thing is you must have proper regulation," he said.
Striking a note of caution to authorities, he, however, said "regulation should not become strangulation."
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