Question : Medical Colleges on PPP Model

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government is considering the proposal of introducing Public Private Partnership Model for construction of Medical Colleges alongside District Hospitals of the States, if so, the details thereof;

(b) whether the Government has invited private parties from the medical field for participation in such model, if so, the details thereof;

(c) whether the concerns like fee structures, sharing of medical seats and cost of treatment in such Hospitals has been addressed or not; and

(d) if so, the details thereof?

ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND
FAMILY WELFARE
(SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

(a) to (d): The regulations of Medical Council of India (MCI) allow establishment of a medical college under Public Private Partnership (PPP) model. Clause 2(5) of MCI’s Establishment of Medical College Regulations, 1999, prescribes that the appropriate Government may allow the utilization of the facilities of a hospital owned and managed by it for establishing a Medical College by a person/agency /trust/society /company by entering into a Memorandum of Understanding for this purpose. The hospital to be transferred should be minimum 300 beds with necessary infrastructural facilities capable of being developed into teaching institution for the proposed medical college. It has also been prescribed that while transferring the Government Hospital facility, the State Government may safeguard the interest of State particularly in respect of admission of students under Government Quota in the medical college, patient care and implementation of all government health programmes in affiliated Hospital of the medical college.