Click to play videoNew Delhi: He may have left medicine for politics but he has stayed back in India. Awarding degrees to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) graduates, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss spoke out against the exodus of doctors to greener pastures abroad.
“I urge you to practice in India, there is a huge shortage of doctors in the country and we need doctors with special skills,” says Ramadoss.
Ramadoss has a point because a research conducted by a Delhi based NGO shows that on an average more than 60 per cent MBBS doctors who pass out from the AIIMS go abroad looking for work. Eight-seven per cent of these students head for the US.
In 2008 the Planning Commission estimated that there was a shortage 6 lakh doctors in the country. The report also stated that the doctor to population ratio stood at a dismal 60 doctors to 1 lakh people.
The Health Minister's plea to the young doctors to work in India as there is an acute shortage of doctors in the country is in sharp contrast to his decision to not extend the residency of 183 Senior Resident Doctors at the AIIMS. These doctors now claim that the next best option for them is to work abroad.
“People go abroad to make money. We want to work here but the minister is not letting us,” says former senior resident doctor Kumar Harsh.
At a time when the country in general and AIIMS in particular is battling against a shortage of talent it seems that Ramadoss will need to mend his ways.
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