Editorial
Medical technicians' training
An appropriate authority should authorise the institutes
A report published in this newspaper yesterday shed ample light on the anomalies associated with the running of institutes of health technology in the country. A good number of them, 46 to be precise, are operating with approval from the Technical Education Board (TEB), although these should have obtained permission to operate from the health and family welfare ministry.
It seems a serious lack of coordination existed between the health ministry and the TEB on this particular issue otherwise how an inappropriate authority could step in and hold the reins of approval. And it has already created a grave problem for the students of the TEB-approved institutes of health technology, as an official of the health ministry has stated that they would not attach any value to the certificates issued by the "illegally" run institutes. And all this is happening in a country with an acute shortage of medical technicians! Whereas ideally we should have had 4.29 lakh medical technologists, we have only 10653 of them.
The issue of producing an adequate number of medical technicians with a view to providing quality medicare services to the people should come out of the bureaucratic tangle. Is training for medical technicians such a trivial issue that it could be handled by any inappropriate organisation? Surely, this reflected on the blase attitude of the authorities to the very important role that the medical technicians perform in a modern hospital. It's not always enough to detect a gross irregularity; it has to be detected well before serious damage is done and remedied accordingly.
We urge the government to look into the matter urgently and remove the anomalies once and for all.
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