“We cannot stop doctors from studying or working abroad - we can provide them with lucrative offers”, these are the words of an official serving on the parliamentary committee. Obviously, doctors are too less in numbers in India. Total number of MBBS seats—53,330 (30,000 NEET) Colleges 426 Total 17,000 PG-NEET seats are available across 350 medical colleges. Candidates appearing 1 lakh (many are repeaters).
Registered doctors- 9.29 lakhs (not from live database - many passes away/go abroad) Available in practice - 7.4 lakhs Rati - 1/1974 Ratio recommended by WHO—1/1000 Parliamentary committee report -1/2000 It really breaks one’s heart to see a young student commit suicide after an unsatisfactory result. It happens in all fields and after results of many examinations. Traditionally it is either blamed on parents who pressurise the children to achieve or on immaturity and weakness of…
