MILITARY PROCEDURE MCI gives nod to 3,595 new medical seats
The Medical Council of India has provided a bonanza for aspiring medical students by adding 3,595 more MBBS seats in the country this year. The MCI has given its approval to 2,400 fresh MBBS seats in 20 new medical colleges and 1,195 additional seats in existing medical colleges.
These seats are in addition to the 300 additional MBBS seats created through six new AIIMSlike institutes from September this year.
The MCI has also created 1,442 new post-graduate seats, with 1,326 MD/MS seats in various existing medical colleges and
The addition of seats will improve the doctor-patient ratio in the country from a poor 1:2000 to 1:1000 by 2021
another 116 super-speciality seats for DM/MCH.
The new seats are expected to help even up the existing imbalance in the availability of public health resources, sources said.
Among the new medical colleges approved by MCI now, include nine in the government sector and 11 private ones.
Among the states in which new medical colleges will come up include Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Gujarat. The MCI last year had created 4,452 fresh MBBS seats in 21 new medical colleges and additional seats in existing medical colleges in the country.
With the new seats, the overall availability of MBBS seats in India would rise to 45,464 and the number of medical colleges in the country would rise to 355.
The additional seats will also improve the doctor patient ratio in the country from a poor 1:2000 to 1:1000 by 2021.