As per the statement issued by minister of health and family
welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad, MBBS students applying for admission to post-graduate
medical courses from academic year 2015-16 will have to undertake a mandatory
rural posting at a public health centre (PHC) for one year.
As per Azad, this comes after the proposal set by Medical
Council of India (MCI) to amend the Post Graduate Medical Education
Regulations, 2000, in this regard has since been approved by the ministry of
health and family welfare.
Azad said there is also a shortfall of 3,459 surgeons, 3,005
obstetricians and gynecologists, 3,667 physicians, 3,270 pediatricians and a
total of 13,477 specialists in community health centres across the country as
on March 31, 2012.
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