The BMC decision follows after the state
medical education department's recent announcement to tackle the problem of
shortage of doctors in the state-run hospitals by starting medical colleges at
the district level on a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, while
increasing the number of seats for students in the already existing colleges.
There is good news for students who want to
pursue medical education. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has
decided to increase the number of seats in its medical colleges in the city. Increasing the
number of seats in all the four civic-run medical colleges has been a
long-pending demand.
The BMC decision follows after the state medical education department's recent
announcement to tackle the problem of shortage of doctors in the state-run
hospitals by starting medical colleges at the district level on a
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, while increasing the number of seats
for students in the already existing colleges.
As per the Medical Council of India (MCI) records, by March 31, 2014, 9.29 lakh
doctors were registered in the Indian Medical Register. Assuming that 80 per
cent of them are available at any given point of time, nearly 7.4 lakh are
actually available for active services. This results in a poor doctor to
patient ratio — 1:1,674. The World Health Organisation (WHO) norms mandates it
to be maximum 1:1,000.
"MCI had already issued directives to
increase seats in medical colleges. We have got the essential certificate from
the state medical education department to increase the number of seats in Sion
hospital. We have increased the seats in KEM and Nair hospitals. Also, we will
be submitting a proposal to the government to increase the number of
post-graduate seats in Sion hospital." said Sanjay Deshmukh, additional
municipal commissioner.
The four functional medical colleges run by
the BMC are Topiwala Medical National College run along with Nair Hospital in
Mumbai Central, Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College run along with KEM
Hospital in Parel, Lokmanya Tilak Medical College run along with Lokmanya Tilak
Municipal General Hospital in Sion and Cooper Medical College, Vile Parle.
BMC has a plan to add 40 seats in KEM
Hospital which currently has 180 MBBS seats. Nair Hospital has 120 seats and
the plan is to add 30 seats in it and in Sion Hospital they may add 50 seats to
the existing 100.
Currently, MCI-approved colleges across Maharashtra offer 5,945 MBBS seats in
44 medical colleges.
Dr Suhasini Nagda, director, Major Hospitals,
she says: "The need of hour is to increase the MBBS seats. Patient
workload has increased and there is a need to create more doctors. As per
rules, we are increasing the MBBS seats in our medical college."
Source
| Daily News Analysis | 18 August 2015
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