To overcome the critical shortage of medical practitioner in India, government has adopted a quickest but significant step to recognise the postgraduate medical degrees obtained from five English-speaking countries Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
But those degrees must be recognised and eligible to do practice and job in government as well as private sectors in the concerned countries as stated Union Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss in a released statement on Tuesday.
Announcing to move the decision of recognising the post graduate degree of 5 foreign English –speaking nations, government is planning to curb the serious shortage problem of legal and recognised medical practitioner in rural and urban areas.
Government has already recognised the medical degrees of Myanmar, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Japan, and Hong Kong and these new recognitions will expand the chances of Indian students to pursue the medical course from these recognised countries. Besides these, the already medical professionals include Non-resident and Overseas Indians who are working in those countries can return home and do their practice here.
A couple of months back, the United Kingdom has prohibited of employing those medical professional in government job who do not belong to European Union giving priority to Europeans.
Now, those unaccepted medical professionals could return to India to continue their practice. “The unilateral decision of the union government to recognise foreign degrees in medicine would help thousand of Indian doctors in UK who are out of job because of a legislation,” said Ramadoss in release.
‘Those degrees will not come in the range of Medical Council of India’, cited Ramadoss in the release. For stepping up to recognise that degree, government has informed to MCI regarding this matter and issued a notification on March 10 under Indian Medical Council Act, 1956. The MCI recognises the Indian medical degrees and have all the records of Indian medical practitioners who have granted the recognised medical degrees.
According to MCI data statistics, there are a total number of 6,83,582 registered allopathic doctors in India that make a ratio of one doctor per 1,634 people in India, while the other medical practitioners who granted degree from other ways of Indian medicine system (Homeopathy, Ayurvedic and Unani) are more than 6 lakh that make the overall ratio of one doctor per 870 people, which is extremely below the ideal standard of doctor-people ratio.
In India, there are 271 medical colleges, out of which 138 are government and remaining 133 are private that have a cumulative intake capacity of 31,172 seats in the graduate courses whereas nearby 11,005 post-graduate seats are available in various courses of all medical colleges and hospitals per year.
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Comments:
uday
October 29, 2008 at 12:00 AM
manchi
August 23, 2008 at 12:00 AMmy dear friends there are some doctors who pay for pg degrees in russia and other countries, but still there are some doctors who still do their best in their courses.so its not fare commenting all the doctors from russia and other countries.
we here study , strive a lot and you people are commenting that doctors from out side of india especially for russia and co-countries cannot become a gooddoctors. please don't think so. there are still good doctors from these countries who are well paid in most of the corporate hospitals in india. so think positively and be positive for your co-indian who is doing medicine
in other countries. jai-hind
Observer
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 AMIts clear that govt is not serious about shortage of medical professional in India. If they were, they would have considered recognizing students in both MBBS and MD/MS passing out from colleges of Nepal, China and Sri Lanka. These doctors are more available to work in India than from European countries. This recognition play is farce to the core..
Mohan
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 AMBut why would PG Medical Graduates from these developed nation choose to work in India, where the pay for Doctors is Miserable, A Assistant Surgeon only makes as much as what a BSc graduate makes in a BPO . If it was aimed at recognizing Indian PG doctors who have got their PG's from countries outside India, the list should have Included Russia, China and several other third world countries where Indian doctors routinely pay to get a PG degree
Sudeshna
March 19, 2008 at 12:00 AMIt is a welcome decision and move and was long overdue. India has been suffering from brain drain. But now things are changing with india becoming a hub for development in Corporate sectors.This is a time we need to become more friendly in our policies so as to hold the economy and money of tax payers for the development of India.The South East Asian countries have already launched a battle in Medical tourism and BPO Industry against India. So it time we rolled up our sleeves and prepared to keep the honour and the development of our country intact.
Jai Hind.....
Sudarshan
March 19, 2008 at 12:00 AMIts indeed a welcome move though long due.
why is ambumani not considering the fact that we are producing graduates like a rat and that dedvelops more frustations among mbbs grads. its like a professional suicide to remain as an mbbs.he should the num in of pg seats in due ratio as mbbs