UPDATE – Indian Brain Drain | A law to curb it is coming

Compulsory Brain Drain : Indian Doctors should come back after Higher studies in the US | Asian Correspondent

Any doctor who is going to the US for higher medical studies will have to sign a bond with the government that they will return back after their studies. Universities across the US will ask for this bond from 2012. There is a statistic to go with the news :  3000 doctors left for the US in the last 3 years and none of them returned.

Well, what can I say. Expecting people who left for the US to return back to India is wishful thinking. I just hope India isn’t getting its policies from China, just like it gets toys and electronics. In fact, China might not even have this kind of policy…

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Azad: Law to curb brain drain on cards

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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