Health Minister Aravind Limbavali said that exclusion of the underprivileged from securing health services, and shortage of staff in government health services prevent the state from achieving Universal Health Coverage.
“There is a shortage of specialist doctors and other health staff.
We need to attract more people into the government health services,” said Limbavali, speaking at the launch of the second national conference on Bringing Evidence into Public Health Policy held here on Friday.
He said that scientists and researchers needed to empathise with the problems faced by the Government.
On the same occasion, T Sundararaman, executive director of the National Health Systems Resource Centre said that Community Health workers in the country are not getting counted as evidences on international levels.
Political will and technical support are indispensable for a public health system, said Bruno Gryseels, director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp.
“The public health system also needs to achieve rapid successes so that it can retain the faith of the politicians and public,” he added.
