Arunachal CM sets new benchmark to check progress in health sector

Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Friday gave a new benchmark to measure the progress of the health sector in the state.

Speaking at the 2-day 11th annual conference of the Arunachal Pradesh Doctors Association (APDA) here on Friday evening, Khandu said, “Increase in number of doctors or state-of-the-art health infrastructure, actually, shouldn’t be the basis to measure the status of our health sector. Instead, we must measure our health sector progress on the number of patients going out of the state for treatment. The less this number goes, the better we have achieved in the health sector.”

He said that the day nobody from the state goes out for treatment would be the day when the state health sector would have achieved its objective.