Go rural, medical education minister Dr Sudhakar’s call to medicos
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Mysuru: “Doctors should be willing to serve in rural areas as 70 per cent of the population resides in rural”, said Health and Family Welfare and Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar.
He was addressing the gathering during 11th convocation ceremony of JSS Academy of Higer Education and Research (JSS-AHER) on Wednesday.
The minister said “the Government has made it mandatory for the post graduate medical students to serve in rural areas after completion of their studies. As many as 2500 medicos will be completing their graduation this year. Doctors should be responsible enough to serve in rural areas on humanitarian grounds”.
Some doctors have appealed in the court against this policy. They should withdraw their appeal and serve voluntarily in rural areas. You are free to study abroad but, return back to mother land and serve here after the completion of studies, the minister advised the medical graduates.
There is one doctor for a population every 11,000 to 12,000 thousand people in the state. A bed is available for every thousand people. As per WHO standards, there should be a doctor for every thousand people and 2.7 beds per thousand population. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given approval to establish 150 medical colleges in the last six years. Additional 17,000 seats have been added to post-graduate courses. Health sector has been strengthened by all these measures, explained Sudhakar.
“The pandemic has been managed well in India. Global mortality rate due to Covid is at 3.8%, but it is 1.4% in the country and 1.3% in the state. Earlier we had 19% positivity rate in some districts, but it is reduced to 2.2% now”, the minister said.
JSS has been the pride of the State and has brought laurels at global arena. JSS should grow on the lines of ancient Indian Universities like Nalanda and Takshashila. The war against Covid is still on. JSS has provided 1,800 bedded hospital and staff for this purpose and actively participated in this fight, said Sudhakar.
Sutturu seer Sri Shri Shivaratri Deshikendra Mahaswamiji was present during the event.
Other Points made by the Minister
• We are committed to provide quality health care at affordable prices. Around 1.5 crore families in the state are benefitted from Ayushman Bharat-Arogya Karnataka scheme.
• 60% of the people in our country are incurring out-of-the-pocket expenditure on health care. We have free health care services but quality needs to be improved.
• New medical colleges will come up at Chikkaballapur, Haveri and Yadgir
Congress is disconnected from ground reality
“Congress is disconnected from ground reality and its leaders doesn’t have their ears to the ground. That’s the reason they have failed miserably. I had told earlier that Muniratna is going to win RR Nagar with a margin of more than 50,000 votes. Same thing happened. BJP takes up every single election as a challenge. That’s the reason we have won both the seats in bypolls and all four MLC seats, which has further strengthened the party”, said Sudhakar.
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