The cadre will be a healthcare body comprising people specially trained to effectively deal with the prevention and management of diseases.
You may no longer have to run to general practitioners and hospitals to get medical treatment for diseases such as dengue, malaria, H1N1, tuberculosis, measles, etc. The ministry of health and family welfare is planning to form a specialised public health cadre to deal with both communicable and non-communicable diseases.
The cadre will be a healthcare body comprising people specially trained to effectively deal with the prevention and management of diseases.
The ministry also plans to establish a public health directorate comprising community-level and state-level experts who are well-trained in laboratory practices, surveillance and outreach investigations.
“I think the time has come for all of us to consider very seriously the creation of specialised public health cadres for disease prevention and management. Controlling infectious diseases such as malaria, TB, H1N1, measles, polio, chikungunya, dengue, etc, need qualified and well-trained public health personnel,” Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said at the annual conference of Central Council of Health and Family Welfare. The meeting was attended by health ministers from various states.
The health minister has asked the state governments to frame a strong transfer policy and ensure that trained personnel are not transferred to places where they cannot utilise their skills and knowledge as there is little capacity to manage non-communicable diseases at the district levels.
Meanwhile, the government has proposed to set up three bodies — National Board of Accreditation (NBA), National Board of Education, Training and Examination for Medical and Allied Services (NABETEM) and Council of Professionals — under the ambit of the National Council for Human Resources in Health (NCHRH).
A decision to this effect was taken during a consultation meeting where the consensus favoured trifurcating the functions of the proposed commission under NCHRH. This move will ensure that a body (such as MCI, DCI, PCI) will not be performing all the regulatory functions including accreditations of colleges and maintenance of professional registers, academic functions.
Accordingly, NBA will perform functions related to the approval of
new medical colleges and increasing the number of seats besides assessing the quality of academic infrastructure.
NABETEM will prescribe minimum requirements of infrastructure, faculty, etc for the opening of a health institute, examinations’ time schedules, faculty development programmes, etc.
Instead of dissolving MCI, DCI, PCI and Council of Paramedics as proposed earlier, the new proposal will re-establish them to form Councils of Professionals. The Councils of Professionals will regulate the profession in their respective fields, maintain professional registers, enforce professional ethics and laws for prevention of quackery and unauthorised practices.
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