Policy matters

Using the recent government decisions in the medical arena as backdrop, Confused convincingly argues for a policy driven government.

If the government was serious about improving the rural health system, it could have achieved its purpose by investing in primary health care system (rather than building new AIIMS) while at the same time incentivizing rural practice for medical graduates: waiver of fees and a preference in post-graduate medical education. It would be facile to dismiss it as one off case; instead, it is an expression of how a systematic neglect of policy education has stymied policymaking in India.