With doctors increasingly preferring to migrate to greener pastures abroad, the Government is in the process of tightening of norms to curb this disturbing trend that has left the Indian medical system ailing.
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said that the Ministry is working to make the laws stringent wherein any doctor going to the US for higher medical studies would have to sign a bond with it before leaving and honour the document by returning to India after finishing the study period.
The move aims to curb the brain drain in the health sector as in the last three years, 3000 doctors went abroad including US for studies and did not return. Now if a student does not come back from the US, he won’t be allowed to practice there, as per bond.
The need to check the migration tendency has been long felt. Figures speak. There are only 6.13 lakh physicians in the country, against a requirement for 13.3 lakh — a staggering shortage of just over 50 per cent, according to the World Health Statistics 2010 report. India has less than one doctor for a thousand people (0.6) as compared to China (1.4 doctors per thousand). In absolute numbers, the US has more doctors than India.
“From this year onwards, any student going for further medical education to the US will have to give us a bond that he will come back after finishing…
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