The Medical Council of India (MCI) is planning to give unique identification numbers to all doctors in India, according to president of MCI. “This is the only way to know how many doctors we have in the country. We can easily track doctors if they move from one State to another,” president said on Friday. When the MCI was started, there were 22 medical colleges. There were 460 medical colleges now, she said, adding that 500 doctors passed out a year when the MCI was established, while 63,985 doctors were produced every year now.
“This will be beneficial to all as we will have records of all doctors and their practice. We can identify a doctor by the unique identification number,” she added. The president said the MCI had come up with the Digital Mission Mode Project under which they would monitor faculty members of every medical college. “This will be implemented in 100 colleges by…
