Medical education to stay with Health

Medical education to stay with Health

The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday ruled out shifting medical education from its purview to that of the HRD Ministry.
In a meeting between Union Health Secretary K Sujatha Rao and HRD Secretary Vibha Puri, the latter declared that there was no question of such a transfer. “Medical Science cannot be divorced from actual health policy,” Rao said after the meeting on Tuesday.
The HRD Ministry has been pushing for including medical education under the purview of its proposed National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER). The Health Ministry, on the other hand, has been raising objections to the proposed Foreign Universities Bill that recommends an overarching commission as the final authority to approve, regulate and monitor universities of all disciplines, including health and allied sciences, wanting to make their entry in India.
Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that it was not possible to bring all aspects of higher education under one overarching body. “It will only create chaos,” Azad said. Medical education being a “peculiar subject” should be handled by it alone, the Health Ministry has argued in a communication to the Human Resource Development Ministry.
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