Private medical colleges should strictly comply with our condition and provide free health services at our hospitals: U.T. Khader
Health Minister U.T. Khader has threatened to cancel MoUs with private medical colleges that fail to provide promised free healthcare services at government hospitals. He emphasized that these institutions must fulfill their obligations to provide doctors and specialists as agreed upon.
Why it matters
This reflects the government's struggle to leverage private sector resources to bridge gaps in public healthcare infrastructure.
Expressing his strong displeasure over the lackadaisical approach of private medical colleges in providing services at government healthcare centres, Health and Family Welfare Minister U.T. Khader said the private medical colleges were bound to provide services free of cost.
“If they are not abiding by our conditions, then we will certainly cancel the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and also inform the National Medical Commission,” Mr. Khader told reporters in Mangaluru on Wednesday.
Mr. Khader said the State government mooted the MoU with private medical colleges in order to take the help of the private institutions in filling the vacancy of personnel and provide specialised treatment to people at the goverment hospitals. At a recent review meeting, Mr. Khader said he found private medical colleges not providing doctors and other services, which were the requirements laid down in the MoU.
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