Ahmedabad: The National Medical Commission (NMC) under the Ministry of Health and family welfare is working on plans to increase the total number of undergraduate medical seats to one lakh next year, the sources of being aware of developments.
It was discussed at the recent NMC meeting chaired by the Secretary of the Union Health.
“At present there are 82,500 MBBS seats throughout the country and the government plans to take him to one lakh within one year,” said a government official who was close to development.
There is close to 540 medical colleges in this country offering a MBBS course in which 49% run the government and remain financed alone and on the basis of public-private partnerships.
“The process of adding new medical colleges and increasing the current MBBS seats,” said Dr.
Aruna Vatalar, President of the Bachelor of Medical Education Council, NMC.
He did not divulge more information about the number of new applications for the increase in the number of seats.
Resources in Gujarat Medical Education Farmity said that Gujarat had 5,500 strange UG medical seats and would likely get three universities.
“There is a deliberation to start three new medical colleges in the state that will add 450 seats,” said an official.
To add more seats, the government is exploring the option to run medical colleges in two shifts to increase the number of student intake.
A similar plan is being worked on various parts of the country too, the source added.
The source also said it was considered to start medical colleges affiliated with government hospitals.
“There are at least six districts who have a government hospital and are being considered to apply for medical colleges here,” said a senior medical education official.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a address in February said that around 30,000 MBBS seats and 24,000 postgraduate seats in medicine have been added since the current central government in power in 2014.
Modi, while giving the address of the convocation of a medical college in Tamil Nadu by the way Video Conference said that the number of MBBS seats has risen 50% and graduate seats up to 80% since 2014.
The central government has taken various initiatives to change the health sector and the National Medical Commission, the newly formed supervisory body, formed to bring more transparency.
As part of the central plan to increase the number of MBBS seats when the country faces a doctor’s shortage during Covid-19, the government aims to increase the number of seats in 50 students in the government medical college.
Currently inspection in medical colleges in this country and for undergraduate institutions there will be no physical inspection and permission for the increase in seats will be given based on written statements submitted by universities, said Source.
The central government as part of a broad plan aims to have one government of running medical colleges in each state district.
This will solve infrastructure problems because most districts currently have a large government hospital hospital.
While the government may have found a way to solve infrastructure problems to raise the number of MBBS seats, the crisis staff is a problem that they are still wrestling with, according to a medical expert.
The Government Medical Run College in Gujarat has been shaken under pressure because of 15% of Crunch staff, the situation is worse at the university financed itself where there are 30% of crisis staff, he added.