High Level Group constituted for faster expansion of health sector
By TIOL News Service
NEW DELHI, MAY 24, 2018: The Fifteenth Finance Commission has constituted a high level group consisting of eminent experts from across the country in Health Sector. Dr Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS, New Delhi would be its Convenor.
The role and functions of such group would be to evaluate the existing regulatory framework in the Health sector and examine its strength and weaknesses for enabling a balanced yet faster expansion of the health sector keeping in view India's demographic profile. Apart from that, the group would suggest ways and means to optimize the use of existing financial resources and to incentivize the state governments' effort on fulfillment of well-defined health parameters in India and would also holistically examine best international practices for the health sector and seek to benchmark our frameworks to those practices for optimizing benefits keeping in mind our local issues.
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