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Union health Ministry has come up with numerous proposals to improve the quality of healthcare in India.
The following are some of the steps -
- Doctors to be paid more for rural postings
- 10 weight-age points for each year of service in rural areas, which will be useful while aiming for higher studies
- Navjaat Shishu Suraksha Yojna to add more focus on the health of newborns
- General doctors to undergo multi-skill training for meeting the shortage of paediatricians and thereby decreasing the neonatal deaths
- Organ Transplant Act to become stringent but patient friendly.
- 10 years of jail to medicos and other who encourage for illegal organ trade
- New medical colleges in metro cities to go vertical instead of horizontal, with just 10 acres of land allocated to them
- Public-private partnership for upgrading district hospitals to medical colleges in north-eastern states, hilly states and backward states
- Fake drug manufacturers and traders to undergo lifetime imprisonment and fine of Rs.1 million or three times the value of confiscated drugs, whichever is more.
- 74 new treatment centres have been established for providing HIV treatment taking the total number of such centres to 418.
- Additional 24,000 patients have been put on treatment taking the total to 2.55 lakh against the projected target of 300,000 by 2012.
- Sports injury centre at Safdarjung Hospital with an estimated cost of Rs.70.72 crore.
- Four out of 6 AIIMS approved in Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna and Rishikesh.
