Now, we will list the announcements in the union budget which will prove beneficial for the medical PG aspirants: Creation of 5,000 additional PG medical seats: In order to deal with the problem of acute shortage of doctors in the nation and to ensure adequate availability of specialist doctors to strengthen secondary and tertiary levels of health care, the government has announced the creation of 5,000 additional PG medical seats in the nation. Medical PG seat strength in the nation is currently 18,000 in clinical subjects which are not sufficient to match its teaching and research requirements. Upgrade ‘District Hospitals’ as ‘Medical Colleges’: The massively increased allocation has gone to a scheme which has the intention to upgrade 58 government district hospitals as medical colleges.
5 district colleges have been upgraded so far. The budget seeks to target the rest with an…
