India’s doctor-patient ratio

November 21, 2019

healthy soch

New Delhi, November 21, 2019:

There is one modern medicine doctor for every 1,445 Indians as per the country’s current population estimate of 135 crores. A total of 11,59,309 allopathic doctors were registered with the state medical councils and the Medical Council of India (MCI) as on March 31. Assuming an 80% availability, around 9.27 lakh doctors are available for active service, which put the allopathic doctor-patient ratio at 1:1445.

Besides, there were 7.88 lakh Ayurveda, Unani and Homeopathy doctors in the country and assuming an 80% availability, it is estimated that around 6.30 lakh doctors practising traditional systems of medicine are available for service and considered together with allopathic doctors, it threw up a doctor-patient ratio of 1:860.

Considering the number of registered medical practitioners of both modern medicine and traditional medicine, India has already achieved the WHO recommended doctor to population ratio of 1:1,000.

www.healthysoch.com

Points to debate

  1. On what basis WHO recommended a population to doctor ration of 1: 1000 for all countries and did not divide the ratio based on economic development
  2. WHO did not differentiate the modern medicine vs the traditional Nation based medicine available in many countries like AYUISH in India?
  3.  AYUS in India also contains Naturopathy and Yoga, the number if includer the present ration will become further lower that 1: 860
  4. The current criteria should not the [population to doctor ration but sickness to doctor’s ration. In India most of the wellness industry is looked after by AYUSH and not by modern medicine, which looks after only the sickness industry
  5. The real shortage in India is of specialists and not the doctors. Which can only be reduced by empowering the MBBS doctors in 2-3 years training on the speciality subject weather or not they get post-graduation.
  6. In our times there was a requirement of doing six months house jobs in the given subject before starting practice and six months training was sufficient in the given subject or procedure to start practice. MTP act was also enacted with the same assumption of requiring six months training in the required procedure or the subject.
  7. To reduce the deficiency in the available specialists in the country we need to go back to the house job structure and make specialists available with 6 – 12 months training. For example if a doctors only wants to go for gall bladder surgery, post MBBS 6-12 months of training in the institution doing only gall bladder surgeries should be sufficient.

Dr KK Aggarwal

President CMAAO and HCFI

healthysoch

Stay informed with the latest news from HealthySoch. Sign up today for exclusive insights and updates!

We promise we never spam!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

Health Tips

Dr. T S Kler Padma Bhushan Awardee
MD, DM, MRCP, FRCP(U.K), FACC, D.Sc
Chairman – Fortis Heart Institute Gurugram

Precautions to avoid Corona Virus:

  1. Stay home as far as possible.
  2. Wash hands with soap and water frequently.
  3. Keep distance from people even your home members.
  4. Keep atleast 1-2 metres away from anybody coughing.
  5. Don’t touch your face, nose and mouth.

 

Dr. K.K Says

Archives

MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
    123
45678910
18192021222324
25262728293031
       
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
26272829   
       
891011121314
293031    
       
    123
45678910
11121314151617
25262728293031
       
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
27282930   
       
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
3031     
     12
17181920212223
24252627282930
31      
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
2627282930  
       
1234567
891011121314
22232425262728
293031    
       
     12
3456789
17181920212223
24252627282930
       
  12345
6789101112
       
  12345
13141516171819
2728     
       
      1
9101112131415
3031     
   1234
567891011
       
282930    
       
    123
45678910
       
  12345
27282930   
       
      1
3031     
    123
11121314151617
       
28      
       
2930     
       
    123
       
       
       
      1
9101112131415
3031     
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
242526272829 
       
  12345
13141516171819
2728293031  
       
      1
23242526272829
3031     
    123
       
    123
25262728   
       
78910111213
28293031   
       
293031    
       
14151617181920
28293031   
       
   1234
567891011
       
   1234
567891011
262728    
       
891011121314
293031    
       
    123
18192021222324
25262728293031
       
  12345
27282930   
       
      1
2345678
16171819202122
3031     
    123
45678910
18192021222324
       
28293031   
       
     12
31      
   1234
       
  12345
6789101112
       
HealthySoch

Don't Miss

IKRIS Run launched in Noida to make breast cancer awareness campaign a nation-wide movement

“IKRIS Pharma launched the IKRIS Run in the lead up
After Doctors, Apollo Hospitals to train Paramedics from Africa

After Doctors, Apollo Hospitals to train Paramedics from Africa

25 paramedical personnel from 9 African nations to undergo training