The Niti Aayog has invited state health secretaries later this week to discuss its draft of a new Medical Commission of India Bill 2016, which seeks to reform medical regulation in India. Instead, they prepared a draft bill. What steps are needed to rein in commercialisation of medical education? The draft bill was to redress these two issues but has done the opposite. Is this the model we want to follow when we desperately need doctors to work in public health, in rural areas and in public hospitals?

Source: Times of India September 04, 2016 20:26 UTC