Can doctors be good administrators? A doctor’s prescription for healthcare overhaul

Dr. Riyaz Basha is part of a growing tribe of senior healthcare professionals who want to shoulder the administrative burden of healthcare operations.

There’s a general sense that healthcare providers cannot be good administrators due to the strong human element involved in their day-to-day jobs. An ally to one, an adversary to another, bureaucrats have perennially been relied upon in administrative roles. Armed with firm will, ready to change minds, Dr. Basha climbed the ranks of medical bureaucracy to take up essential space in senior administrative roles. Today he serves as Registrar (Evaluation) of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.