Medical Council of India Recommends Union Health Ministry To Approve 14 New Medical Colleges

Across India, the Union health ministry has allowed opening of 14 new medical colleges and increased the number of seats in six existing institutes. The decision was based on the recommendation of the Medical Council of India (MCI).

The //objective was to improve the availability of doctors by ensuring a doctor-patient ratio of 1:1000 as against the current 1:2000 ratio.

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Reportedly, at least five private medical colleges will be established in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh along with nine government medical colleges in Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

The medical colleges will have 100 to 150 seats. At least six private medical colleges have been granted permission to increase 50 seats each in Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand.

When there is already a shortage of teachers in Indian medical colleges, the additional strength of students may suffer with limited infrastructure and facilities in these colleges. Only a few private medical colleges do well as per past reports.

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“The MCI recently inspected several medical colleges and found major shortage of facilities and teachers. Only a few medical colleges fared well and granted permission to increase seats because the government has been planning to do the same," said a senior official in MCI.

"Increasing seats and establishing new medical colleges would not serve the purpose, there has to be ensured quality education and ample opportunities after the students step out of medical colleges," the official added.

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In order to deal with shortage of teachers, officials were mooting increasing the retiring age of teachers in medical colleges.

According to estimates, despite a growth of 15% in supply of medical teachers and specialist doctors every year, the demand for medical professors will not be fully met before 2025.

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Source-Medindia