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Lakhera caution on private medical colleges

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, SEPT. 13. The Lt Governor, M.M. Lakhera, has said that utmost care should be taken before according permission to the private sector to start medical colleges in the Union Territory.

Inaugurating a State conference of the Pondicherry unit of the Indian Medical Association here, on Sunday, he said quality could not be compromised with.

Calling on medical profession to reach out to remote villages and make their services available to the poor and underprivileged, Mr. Lakhera said there should also be no room for commercialisation, as this would tarnish the nobility of the profession.

The medical profession had become a challenging vocation and there should also be updating of the capability of the professionals, who should keep abreast of the latest technology and innovations.

The Lt.Governor stressed that if Indians could do wonders abroad, there was no reason why they could not make history within the country. He said that not less than 8,000 Indian professionals were now serving in Australia and this figure would shoot up to 20,000 in the near future.

The Director of JIPMER (Jawaharlal Institute of Post-graduate Medical Education and Research), K. S. V. K. Subba Rao, said medical profession was now in a critical phase. With the invocation of provisions of the Consumer Protection Act, the public were vigilant about the services and the quality of care they were getting.

While on the one hand there had been an increase in the number of patients coming to public hospitals there had been fall in resources and manpower. Corporate hospitals had better facilities and adequate manpower. In the circumstances attention must be paid to rectifying shortcomings in government hospitals.

The president of the IMA (Pondicherry) and Director of Health and Family Welfare Services, G.S. Reddy, and the Secretary of the IMA, R.V. Krishna Kumar spoke.

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