President of Medical Council of India (MCI), in a letter, urged the government to convert all district hospitals into medical colleges to provide better facilities to patients as well as a scope of practice to budding doctors. She was in the city to attend annual state conference of Indian Medical Association (IMA). Talking to Free Press, Dr.
Mehta accepted the lack of doctors across the country and said MCI has started providing approvals once again for colleges to increase PG seats with one-time relaxation on facilities and thus, increase their student strength to meet the demand of doctors. “We are too worried over the shortage of doctors across the country and therefore working out plans to produce more doctors every year,” she said. Expressing her displeasure over facilities provided to doctors by the government in rural areas, she said, “Doctors do not prefer to work in rural…
