In WHO ranking of healthcare systems, India ranks 112 in the world. Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq and even Venezuela, have better ranking even though people don’t even have food to eat and sell their children for money. In India, though 63,985 seats are available for undergraduate students but only a mere 14,500 seats for post-graduation. If you don’t have a PG in this country, you cannot perform procedures like anesthesia, cannot perform a caesarean or even an ultrasound, so in lots of rural hospitals, there might be a surgeon, but no anesthesiologist.
In India, there is a need of 65 million surgeries per year, but only 26 million are conducted. The main problem lay in the fact that MBBS doctors rarely go on to do their post-graduation and therefore fail to specialize in any particular field of medicine. Some medical colleges in Maharashtra made it mandatory for MBBS doctors to enroll…
