Govt hospitals & human resources ?!

How many hospitals are established and maintained by govt in our country?

The health minister recently revealed in parliament, that a total of 20,306 government hospitals, which include 16,816 rural hospitals and 3,490 urban hospitals run by the central government, state governments and local government bodies, are available in the country.

we know lot of deficit in manpower especially nurses,paramedics and specialist doctors in the govt hospitals. what measures are taken by the govt? 

To improve the Human resources in health care, the MOH taken certain measures as follows:

1.    At present 56,638 MBBS seats and 25,346 PG medical seats are available in the country.

2.    The ratio of teachers to students has been revised from 1:1 to 1:2 for all MD/MS disciplines and 1:1 to 1:3 in subjects of Anaesthesiology, Forensic Medicine, Radiotherapy, Medical Oncology and Surgical Oncology.

3.    DNB qualification has been recognized for appointment as faculty to take care of shortage of faculty.

4.    The maximum intake capacity at MBBS level has been increased from 150 to 250.

5.    The age limit for appointment, extension or re-employment against posts of teachers, dean, principal and director in medical colleges has been enhanced from 65 to 70 years.

6.    The norms for setting up of a medical college in terms of requirement for land, faculty, staff, bed strength and other infrastructure have been relaxed.

7.    Schemes have been launched for strengthening existing state government and central government medical colleges to increase MBBS seats; upgrading state government medical colleges for starting new PG courses or increasing PG seats; and for establishing new medical colleges by upgrading district or referral hospitals preferably in underserved districts of the country.

8.    The maximum cost per MBBS seat  in government medical colleges born by the govt  has been pegged at Rs 1.20 crore.

Brain drain is bothering the govt.to such an extent.  During 2010-2014, a total number of 3,947 Statement of Need (SON) Certificates and Exceptional Need Certificates (ENC) were issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to Indian doctors to enable them to pursue higher medical studies in the United States of America (USA), he said.