One more step towards National Commission for Human Resources for Health (NCHRH)

The government has proposed to set up the National Commission for Human Resources for Health (NCHRH) under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare as an overarching regulatory body for medical education and allied health sciences with a dual purpose of reforming the current regulatory framework and enhancing the supply of skilled manpower in the health sector.

The NCHRH Bill has been introduced in the Rajya Sabha on December 22, 2011 which had referred the Bill to the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health & Family Welfare for examination. The Commission would subsume all the existing councils regulating the education in medicine and allied sciences viz., Medical Council of India, Dental Council of India, Nursing Council of India and Pharmacy Council of India and replace them with corresponding new Councils. This information was given by the Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on August 14.

EH News Bureau