Need to plug shortages in health sector soon, says Venkaiah Naidu
The Hindu
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Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu emphasised on the urgent need to overcome the human resource constraints in the medical sector in order to deliver better services to the people from primary to tertiary care.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a grim reminder of it, he said, and observed that there was a big mismatch in the doctor-patient ratio, which was expected to come down to 1:1,000 by 2024 as stipulated by the World Health Organisation due to the focus laid on it by the Centre.
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