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NEW DELHI: The doctor-population ratio in the country is 1:811, the government informed Parliament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Union Health Minister J P Nadda said there are 13,88,185 registered allopathic doctors in the country and 7,51,768 registered practitioners in the AYUSH system of medicine.<\/p>\n

\u201cAssuming that 80 per cent of registered practitioners in both the allopathic and AYUSH systems are available, the doctor-population ratio in the country is estimated to be 1:811,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Nadda further informed the House that there has been a significant increase in the number of medical colleges, undergraduate (UG) and post-graduate (PG) seats in the country.<\/p>\n

The number of medical colleges has gone up from 387 to 818, UG seats from 51,348 to 1,28,875 and PG seats from 31,185 to 82,059 since 2014, the minister said.<\/p>\n

The government has taken various measures to improve the availability of doctors in underserved, rural and tribal areas, he added.<\/p>\n

Under the centrally-sponsored scheme for the \u201cEstablishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district\/referral hospital\u201d, 137 new medical colleges are functional of the 157 approved, Nadda said.<\/p>\n

The Family Adoption Programme (FAP) has been incorporated into the MBBS curriculum to provide equitable healthcare access to rural population, he pointed out.<\/p>\n

The FAP involves medical colleges adopting villages and MBBS students adopting families within these villages.<\/p>\n

This enables regular follow-up of the adopted families for vaccination, growth monitoring, menstrual hygiene, iron-folic acid supplementation, healthy lifestyle practices, nutrition, vector control and medication adherence, Nadda said.<\/p>\n

It also helps educate families about ongoing government health programmes, he stated.<\/p>\n

Under the District Residency Programme of the National Medical Commission (NMC), second and third year PG students of medical colleges are posted in district hospitals, the minister informed the House.<\/p>\n

Besides, a hard-area allowance is provided to specialist doctors for serving in rural and remote areas and for their residential quarters, he noted.<\/p>\n

Under the National Health Mission, states are allowed to offer a negotiable salary to attract specialists, including flexibility in strategies such as \u201cYou Quote We Pay\u201d, Nadda said.<\/p>\n

Further, the Registration of Medical Practitioners and Licence to Practise Medicine Regulations framed by the NMC deals with the temporary registration of foreign medical practitioners, allowing foreign-qualified and foreign-registered doctors (non-Indian citizens) to practise in India for specific purposes, such as training, fellowship, research, observership, expert visits, voluntary service or approved postgraduate and super-specialty courses.<\/p>\n

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