Mumbai, July 20 With the hospital industry expected to grow at the rate of 30 per cent by industry analysis, need for hospital management professionals is growing by the day. The Institute of Clinical Research India has started a health section which is offering MBA in hospital management and medical tourism. The founding member of the Academy of Hospital Administration, Dr Munindra Srivastava has taken charge of the ICRI Health division. Excerpts from an interview:
Q. What was the need of designing a specific course for hospital management and medical tourism?
Trained manpower will be required soon. These people will be trained in maintenance, human resource management, quality and quantity of care along with promotion and strategizing. The earlier conception that management is “common sense” and can be handled by senior medical professionals is no longer true. It has become a highly specified field.
Q. What value addition will a trained professional make to hospital management?
The course will teach them how an operation theatre is designed, about waste disposal, laws related to hospitals and human resource. We will also train them how to prepare for accreditations and how to maintain standards. Hospital management professionals need to have a degree in science before they are trained in management. This will probably avoid arguments arising among administrators.
Q. Though a lot of hospitals, government and private, are trying for accreditation, there is a debate that the norms should be reconsidered for these two branches.
The accreditation norms were designed by a body of experts from the fields of medicine, law and management. We collected all existing norms and formulated new ones after considering the laws and conditions at the hospital.
Q. There is a lot of dispute related to MCI recognition and the universities. Why is this happening and what can be done?
There is only one reason for this. The state government gives the permission for land and setup while the MCI comes in later. All approvals should come at the same time. The students get cheated sometimes at the time of admissions as they are told that the applications have been sent for MCI recognition.
Q. Where is the hospital industry heading and what are its demands?
The industry is expected to grow at the rate of 30 per cent in the next few years. Also the corporate sector is likely to enter the healthcare field as more and more foreign patients are coming to India for treatment. Patients are demanding professionally managed hospitals, which need specially trained professionals. Stagnation too appears to be a far fetched dream as of now.
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