Tuesday 8 January 2013

300 more MBBS seats to be added at 6 new AIIMS


The Union health ministry has sanctioned an additional 300 MBBS seats for the six newly setup AIIMS like institutes in the country. With this decision the number of seats in each of the AIIMS like institutes, including the one coming up in Raipur, would go up to 100 from the next academic session.

This was confirmed by the director AIIMS, Raipur, Dr Nitin Nagarkar, who revealed that besides the MBBS seats, the health ministry had also approved 60 new seats for nursing students in all the new insitutes. As of now, 50 MBBS seats are available in each of the new AIIMS at Patna, Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur, Rishikesh, Raipur and Bhopal. 

Each of these institutes were allowed to admit 50 students in the first academic year of 2012, as infrastructure was no complete on them. From the next academic session, the total number of MBBS seats in the new AIIMS would go up to 600, providing an opportunity to an additional 300 MBBS aspirants. 

Dr Nagarkar said that construction work at the AIIMS site was in full swing and by the time new session starts, nursing college building and hostel would also be functional. The additional seats would in a way help to correct the existing imbalance in the availability of public health resources. 

With these new additions, the overall availability of MBBS seats in India would rise to 42,169 in the next academic year from the existing 41,569 in 335 medical colleges and 300 in AIIMS like institutes across the country. The health ministry is striving to achieve the target doctor-patient ratio of 1:1000 by 2021, which at present is 1:2000. The government plans to take the overall availability of MBBS seats to 80,000 from the present 41,569 and of PG seats to 45,000 from the current 22,194 by 2021. The aim is to tide over the shortage of doctors, which is currently pegged at around 8 lakhs.

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