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Health Ministers of the WHO South-East Asia Region adopted the Dili Declaration on Human Resources for Health: Equity in Specialized Care at the 79th Session of the Regional Committee (RC79) held in Timor-Leste.
India told the ministerial roundtable that medical colleges have risen from 387 to 858 since 2014 (up 121.71%), MBBS seats from 51,348 to 1,42,464 (up 177.45%) and PG seats from 31,185 to 86,287 (up 176.69%).
India received two WHO South-East Asia Regional awards — for sustaining elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus over a decade, and for leadership on noncommunicable diseases through primary healthcare.
The Declaration commits member states to workforce planning, task-sharing, teleconsultation networks, palliative care integration and a regional network of health professional regulators.
It recalls the 2023 Delhi Declaration on strengthening primary healthcare and is anchored in the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel.
One of WHO's six regional offices; its Regional Committee meets annually and adopts regional declarations and resolutions
WHO's supreme decision-making body of all member states; it approved Indonesia's move out of SEARO at its 78th session in 2025
Regulates medical education and practice, grants recognition to medical qualifications and colleges; replaced the Medical Council of India
Regulates 57 allied and healthcare professions under a single framework
Deliver comprehensive primary healthcare including screening, early identification and referral
Key: Launched in 2018 as Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres by upgrading sub-centres and PHCs; renamed Ayushman Arogya Mandir in November 2023 with the tagline 'Arogyam Parmam Dhanam'
Extend screening and specialist consultations to underserved communities
Key: Outreach camps that carry specialist services beyond fixed facilities
National telemedicine service linking patients and providers to specialists
Key: Launched November 2019; developed by C-DAC and implemented by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; runs a provider-to-provider variant and an OPD variant launched in April 2020
Build national digital health infrastructure
Key: Launched in 2021; ABHA-enabled digital health records support teleconsultation, referral and continuity of care
Provide specialist and referral services below the district hospital
Key: India is using difficult-area allowances, competitive remuneration, in-sourcing of speciality services, performance-based incentives and fixed-tenure postings to retain specialists.
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With reference to Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, consider the following statements: 1. Private and public hospitals must adopt it. 2. As it aims to achieve universal health coverage, every citizen of India should be part of it ultimately. 3. It has seamless portability across the country. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: 3 only
Declaration on Human Resources for Health: Equity in Specialized Care, adopted by health ministers at the 79th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia in Timor-Leste.
The annual governing body of a WHO region, made up of the health ministers of its member states; distinct from the World Health Assembly, which is global.
Shifting defined clinical tasks to trained mid-level or non-specialist providers so that scarce specialists cover more patients.