Thiruvananthapuram, Saturday 04 July 2009: Kerala Governor R. S. Gavai has said Even though medical science and the health-care sector have witnessed a lot of new and positive changes, one should contemplate whether the common man is enjoying the benefits of this progress.

Inaugurating the third All India Health Science University Vice-Chancellors’ Conference, hosted by the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Gavai spoke of the need to maintain the standard of medical education in the country.

Vice-Chancellors from health science universities across the country are participating in the three-day conference, which has the focal theme ‘Medical Education: the Challenges Ahead.’

Kerala Governor said that while Kerala was much ahead of the rest of the country as far as health indicators were concerned, the State needed to focus better on research and development in the health sector. He pointed out that the meeting of Vice-Chancellors of health science universitieswas an opportunity for Kerala to understand better the challenges in medical education, especially since the State was moving towards setting up a medical university of its own.