Recently, the Centre has amended rules to allow diploma holder MBBS doctors to practice as specialists across India. They can also carry out procedures that only post-graduate degree holders were permitted to do earlier. This move was taken to make up for the huge shortfall of specialities particularly gynaecologists, paediatrician and anesthesiologists in the government hospitals in India.
Since long India has poor global rankings in healthcare. A recently released ranking of Health Systems for the year 2017 which covered around 190-countries by the World Health Organization ranked India at 112 and highlighted that India has just 0.7 doctors per 1000 population. Thus, in a recent move, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in association with the Medical Council of India, has notified that all the diploma courses conducted by the College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPS),…
