On Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate 11 medical colleges in TamilNadu via video conference in order to boost the country’s health infrastructure.
This will result in a massive increment in medical seats. However, MBBS seats have increased by 79.60% (from 51,348 to 92,222 seats) and PG seats have increased by 80.70% (from 31,185 to 56,374 seats) over the last seven years. This is stated by the PMO.
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So, before the year of 2014, the total number of medical seats was around 82,500. In the last seven years, there has been an increase of roughly 80%, or 66,000 seats.
The new medical colleges are being developed as part of the ‘Establishing of New Medical Colleges Attached to Existing District/Referral Hospitals’ scheme, which is funded by the federal government. In districts where neither a government nor a private medical college exists, medical colleges are created under the scheme.
According to the datas presented by the Prime Minister’s Office, there’s a roughly 54% increase in the number of medical colleges. The total number of medical colleges, including public and private has increased from 387 to 596.
