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UG medical seats raised by 75%, PG medical seats by 93% since 2014
UG medical seats raised by 75%, PG medical seats by 93% since 2014
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By eHealth Network - 01 April 2022
The number of medical undergraduate seats has raised from 51,348 before 2014 to 89,875 seats as of the date which is an increase of 75% while the number of medical postgraduate seats has gone up by 93% from 31,185 seats before 2014 to 60,202.
The doctor-population ratio was 1:834 in the country assuming 80% availability of registered allopathic doctors and 5.65 lakh AYUSH doctors. Also, there were 2.89 lakh registered dentists, 32.63 lakh registered nursing personnel, and 13 lakh Allied and Healthcare Professionals in the country.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said Indian students who go abroad to pursue MBBS and acquire foreign medical qualifications have to clear the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination to be registered as a medical practitioners in India.
Measures taken to increase the number of seats possess a centrally sponsored scheme for the structure of new medical colleges by elevating district/referral hospitals, under which 157 new medical colleges have been endorsed and 71 are already functional.
It also contains a centrally sponsored scheme for strengthening or up-gradation of existing state government or central government medical colleges to increase MBBS and PG seats and a central sector scheme for up-gradation of government medical colleges by the construction of super specialty blocks.
Mandaviya said, a total of 75 projects have been approved and 55 completed. Under the central sector scheme for setting up of new AIIMS, 22 AIIMS have been approved. Under-graduate courses have started in 19 of them.
The government has also sanctioned the National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions (NCAHP) Act, 2021, for prompt development in the number of allied medical seats in the country, and an interim commission has been notified under the Act’s provisions, according to the minister.
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