One of the commonest solutions which is prescribed to treat India's ailing health care system is creating more medical colleges to churn out more doctors ; and building more hospitals. The standard party line seems to be that we don't have enough doctors , given the large number of patients we have ; and there aren't enough hospital beds. It's usually WHO recommendations which are used as a standard metric to prove that India is short of thousands of hospital beds, as well as hundreds and thousands of doctors.
This is the argument which is trotted out when justifying the need to allow private for-profit companies to start medical colleges; and why funds are used to create brand new hospitals. However, the fact that these solutions are usually proposed by doctors (who have a vested interest in creating more work for themselves) should make us wary about accepting these fixes at face…
