During the Prime Ministership of Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, when Mr.P.Chidambaram was Minister for Personnel in 1986, I have written to the ministry for creating data on the medical practitioners of India. Unfortunately, I got no reply except, I hope an acknowledgment. Now the government is interested in estimating the number of seats to be created for better medical care of masses of India.
These points are very important for estimating such data: 1) In India as per statistics doctor: patient ratio is 1:1456 against the standard prescribed by WHO namely 1:1000 taking into consideration, active practitioners out of registered practitioners are 80%. The details related to how many doctors are alive, active in practice and general versus specialists versus super specialists need a thorough workup which is very easy in the era of computers and internet. But unfortunately no mention regarding this,…
