Karnataka Cabinet has approved creation of a state Health Systems Commission to suggest ways and means to improve medical education, promote healthcare research and integration of Indian system of medicine with modern medicine.
Principal Secretaries in the Departments of Health and Finance would be among the ten-member team of Karnataka Health Systems Commission.
The commission would come out with recommendations on creating awareness and strengthening of health systems, enhance medical education quality and promote healthcare research, among others.
The announcement came in after a Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, Law and Urban Development Minister S Suresh Kumar.
“It will suggest ways and means to integrate Indian system of medicine with modern medicine,” stated the Law and Urban Development Minister Suresh Kumar.
The Cabinet also cleared the proposal of M S Ramaiah Group of Institutions to start a private university on applied sciences, which would offer courses in technical and medical education, management and life sciences, among others. Under the system, 50 per cent of seats in the proposed self-financing varsity would be reserved for students hailing from the State.
The Law and Urban Development Minister said that the M S Ramaiah Group of Institutions had already invested Rs.100 crore for creating education infrastructure here and plans to pump in another Rs.150 crore in the next five years.
Meanwhile, the budget session of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly would be begin on March 20, with the State budget to be presented on March 21.
Source:Pharmabiz
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