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Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Government of India stressed on the need for radical overhauling in the medical education of our country as were needed 15-20 years ago with due emphasis on ethics pointing out degeneration in the same. Students need to be shown the right path, taught the right ethics, while they are still in college. He claimed that unfortunately, it is not happening.

Speaking at the 35th Founder's Day of the National Heart Institute (NHI) in New Delhi, he suggested a short term programme in which medical students can visit IITs and engineering students can visit medical institutions to exchange knowledge. Having worked in science and technology field as a minister, he believe joint application of minds of a doctor and an engineer should find solution for problems of the society.

He rued the extreme shortage of doctors in the country and said even when he visit AIIMS, he feel it does not have the same quality of teachers that they used to have in their student days. Addressing the audience earlier, NHI CEO and Chief Cardiac Surgeon OP Yadava said that it has been a tumultuous journey over the last 35 years. They have seen the ups, but they also had their fair share of travails and rejections.

He added that the NHI has recently signed an MoU with the Uttarakhand government to set up a tertiary care centre for angiography and angioplasty in Almora. PN Tandon, Professor Emeritus, Neurosurgery at AIIMS delivered the National Heart Oration on the occasion and also lamented the fall in the quality of medical education in the country, saying a radical change is needed.