Aim to need for 500 medical colleges in the next five years. The council has given the central government certain recommendations and now the government has to disclose them. According to the new regulations proposal, a Medical College should have at least 10 acres of land to build a college and hospital. Earlier, the medical colleges were asked to have at least 25 acres of land. The council also suggested that in small towns and cities, the hospital should build within the distance of 5 km from college. The colleges in which there are 50 students, there should be 300 beds, for 100 students 300 beds, 150 students 700 beds, 200 students 900 beds, and for 250 students 1,100 beds. And these Medical Colleges can admit up to 250 students, earlier the figure was 200.
The recommendations also focused on increasing the retirement age of the professors up to five tears in medical colleges. Currently, the retirement age is 65 years. Sarin said, if these regulations are followed, 8,000-10,000 medical graduates would increase annually in the country. As of now, there are 35,000 medical graduates in the country. He said, apart from private sector the country needs 500 more medical colleges in the next five years. The government stopped constructing medical colleges 15 years ago about 54 percent of the medical colleges are in private hands.
According to World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations. For every 1,000 people there should be one doctor. Our country will take another 15 years to achieve this standard.
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