Dr Devi Prasad Shetty, Chairman and Founder of Narayana Health said, the National Medical Commission and its new regulations will give enough doctors across India and solves the crisis the pandemic has exposed in a two year time. Due to liberalization in medical education the shortage will be fulfilled at present 80% of taluk and district hospitals are in shortage of specialists. The need for intermediate doctors between a specialist and a general physician will be fulfilled by the new plan.
The Honorable Prime Minister of India and NITI Aayog have announced to set up the National Medical Commission as an apex regulator of medical education instead of Medical Council of India. It is a path-breaking reform in the medical education. India with higher population and improvising the medical field with technology hardly has 70-80,000 under graduation seats and 25000 post-graduation seats across the country compared to 20,000 UG and 40000 PG seats in USA. With the new reform, any hospital with more than 100 beds can become a post-graduate institution and train the diploma aspirants.
Dr Abhijat Sheth the leader of the National Board and the team has made it happen. This plan will help the government in reducing the cost spend on a medical student, approximately 1 crore for a student. A suggestion of adopting district hospitals by the medical colleges was given. The student will complete the pre-medical studies at the colleges and completes the rest of the course at the adopted centers, colleges monitoring both the centers and students.
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