PANAJI— An MBA level course in healthcare management, first of its kind in the state, aimed at producing managers in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and insurance sectors, will be started in Goa from July, this year by Marian Institute of Health Care Management.
Addressing a press conference to mark the launch of the new institution this evening Fr Romualdo D’Souza, the brain behind the new course and entity said that Marian Institute of Health Care Management would be an autonomous body with an intake capacity of 60 students. The course would focus more on healthcare sector.
Earlier Dr V N Jindal, the dean of Goa Medical College (who is also a member of the executive council of the institute) said that healthcare sector was the third largest growing sector after information technology and bio-technology in the country and there was heavy demand for trained professional to man the job arising in the sector.
He described Fr Romualdo D’Souza as a visionary in the educational sector and said that he has taken a wise decision to start such a course. The course would give a big boost to upcoming medical tourism in the state and the state would then be able to further promote it as a medical tourism destination.
Others who spoke during the press conference included Dr R G Wiseman Pinto, Mr A K Burman, secretary of Goa Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association and Mr Vijay Mendes, director of Professional Oral Care Pvt Ltd.
The new institution has been supported by the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman would be temporarily housed in Caritas building and a new building would be built on a plot of land given by
Archdiocese.
The role of healthcare manager has been growing rapidly as the healthcare industry grows and demand for trained personnel has been growing fast to respond to many critical problems faced by hospitals, pharmaceutical and other firms.
The students would have a wide variety of elective courses to choose as they qualify for management career in the sector of their choice and would be able to derive benefit from an interdisciplinary full-time faculty and expert part-time faculty from industry.
Some of the courses included in the second year of the programme are: financial management of health institutions, venture capital and finance of innovation, economics of healthcare and policy, healthcare services delivery: a managerial economic approach, legal aspects of healthcare, healthcare marketing, management and economics of pharmaceutical and bio-technology industry, e-health, business and impact and healthcare entrepreneurship.
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