Bhubaneswar: Government has streamlined the procedures for encouraging private sector investment in opening of the new high quality sustainable health education institutions, and obtaining no objection certificate for different courses like Nursing, D.Pharm, B.Pharm, M.Pharm, DMLT, DMRT, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy and allied medical sciences.
Robust guidelines have also been formulated for ensuring minimum standard of requirements in accordance with recommendations of the concerned Councils.
Secretary Health and Family Welfare Shalini Pandit said that as per the new Rules the requirement of submission of GIS and gap analysis data by the applicant for determining of number of institutions in a district would be discontinued.
She added that the assessment for suitability of the institutions through inspection would be done by the subject experts. Involvement of district administration i.e. Collector and District Magistrate, Additional District Magistrate, Block Development Officer, Deputy Collector, Tahsildar etc. would be discontinued.
The new Rule “will be effective from 2023-24 academic session. The intelligentsia opined that such provisions would facilitate establishment of high-quality professional institutions in the State; and would result in production of qualified and skilled health personnel in different streams.
