New Delhi, Sep 17 - The union health ministry Thursday made a number of major announcements with the aim of providing quality healthcare to all in the country.

The following are some of the steps -

* Doctors to get more payment for rural postings.

* 10 weightage points for each year of service in rural areas, which will help during admission to post-graduate studies.

* Navjaat Shishu Suraksha Yojna with the focus on care of the newborn.

* Government to make general doctors multi-skilled to meet the shortage of pediatricians and reduce neonatal deaths.

* Organ Transplant Act to become stringent but patient friendly.

* 10 years of jail to medicos, touts for illegal organ trade.

* New medical colleges in metro cities to go vertical instead of horizontal.

* New medical colleges in big cities need just 10 acres of land as against previous provision of 25 acres.