Almost one-third (31 per cent) of those who claimed to be allopathic doctors in 2001 were educated only up to the secondary school level and 57 per cent did not have any medical qualification, a recent WHO report found, ringing the alarm bells on India’s healthcare workforce. The situation was far worse in rural India, where just 18.8 per cent of allopathic doctors had a medical qualification, the study titled The Health Workforce in India, published in June 2016, revealed. An official of the Medical Council of India (MCI), said, “I don’t think this report has officially come to the MCI yet.
But in general, any person practising allopathic medicine who does not have a registered medical qualification comes under quackery.” Interestingly, female healthcare workers – 38 per cent of the total – were found to be more educated and medically qualified than their male counterparts. For…
