WB To Have A Centre For Health Administrators

EHM News Bureau - Kolkata

Close on the heels of UK-based DFID extending financial assistance to revamp the healthcare delivery system in West Bengal, now international consultancy firm McKinsey & Company will help the State in setting up a center for health administrators.

“We have decided to set up this Centre because we don’t have a health administrator in the State. McKinsey will implement the project in five states. I have requested them to set up the first Centre in the State,” Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the State Chief Minister said in Kolkata recently. The Chief Minister said the project would be finalised after a society for the centre for health administrators is formed in early 2006. McKinsey will set up the Institute of Health Administrators, said Bhattacharjee.

“The Health Administrators trained at the Centre will go and train people at private and government hospitals,” he added. The Project, the Chief Minister said had been floated by the Prime Minister’s Office and McKinsey would act as a facilitator here.