The committee recommended that the number of MBBS and PG seats in the country be made equal by 2025, along with shifting healthcare from the state list to the concurrent list in the Constitution.
NEW DELHI: A high-level panel on reforms in the health sector has come up with radical suggestions like shifting healthcare from the state list to the concurrent list in the Constitution, opening over 3,000-5,000 small private hospitals in the next five years, and declaring the Right to Health as a fundamental right on the 75th Independence day next year.
Putting the sector in the concurrent list would squeeze state autonomy and give the Centre greater say in public healthcare across India.
The committee recommended that the number of MBBS and PG seats in the country be made equal by 2025.
Also, training offered to teachers ought to be different as compared to that for medical service providers, it suggested.
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