Scientists and public health experts have time and again rued the State’s apparent disinterest in basic and clinical research in the health sector and the total lack of an enabling environment, incentives or support in medical colleges in the State.
The newly unveiled Kerala Health Sciences Research Policy, formulated by the Kerala State Higher Education Council, has focused so much on the need to create an enabling environment in medical institutions in the State to encourage research that it has sparked much interest amongst scientists and the medical fraternity.
One of the key objectives stated in the policy is to make research an integral part of health science studies and the medical science field.
