Developing a comprehensive medical curriculum by integrating all the available medicinal systems to provide the public the best medical care should be the focus of the health university, opined Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Daggupati Purandeswari.
At the inaugural of three-day Silver Jubilee celebrations of Dr.NTR University of Health Sciences on Tuesday, she unveiled a statue of former Chief Minister and her father N.T. Rama Rao on the University premises and said that medical education should give due importance for prevention, intervention and rehabilitation.
She said that high medical expenditure was dragging families into debt traps resulting in suicides according to an international survey. The other cause was agricultural expenditure, she added.
Medical curricula had become obsolete and it was for the Health University to update them. “Compartmentalisation” of medicinal system would also prove to be counter-productive and the university should go for an integrated approach which would be beneficial to the public. She said that the University should also come out with innovative systems to cater to the needs of the masses. It should also come out with improved schemes like Arogyasri, 104 and 108, she opined.
The Health University was a brain child of her father N.T.R along with two more educational institutions – the Telugu University and the Padmavati Mahila University. She said that she saw these three institutions like her siblings and would also work for their development.
Vijayawada East MLA Yelamanchili Ravi presided over the function. MLCs Ilapuram Venkaiah, Chigurupati Varaprasada Rao, K.S.Lakshmana Rao, Satyanarayana (Chaitanaya) Raju, Jelli Wilson and Registrar T. Venugopala Rao spoke. Employees, who worked with the University right from the inception, were felicitated on the occasion.
