100 New Medical Colleges

It is true. I read in the newspaper that the medical council has eased on the norms to start new medical colleges, and recommended starting 100 new ones at district hospital level. It seems it will be a profit sharing public-private partnership. It is expected to fulfill the need for doctors in this country. It will indeed be a wonderful thing when that happens. But the council has not suggested any measures to keep these doctors in the villages where they are needed. If they will all flock to the cities for a better practice and good life, as seems very likely to happen, the woes of patients will not end, and woes of existing doctors will increase due to added competition. Perhaps that will increase the existing cut practice. Perhaps it will introduce newer methods of unethical practice. I also wonder where the teachers will be procured. The existing medical colleges are being derecognized owing to lack of teachers, and I hear some of them move teachers from college to college for inspection by the council. Getting teachers, nurses, technicians for 100 more colleges will be a Herculean task. I pray they can manage it.