Dr MC Saxena Colleges of Medical Sciences

India plans to establish some 200 new medical colleges in the next 10 years to meet the projected huge shortage of 600,000 doctors. The basis for arriving at this huge projected shortage is the recommendation about minimum doctor population ratio of 1:1000 made by 'High Level Expert Group (HLEG) for Universal Health Coverage' constituted by the Planning Commission. There are about 6-6.5 lakh doctors available, but India would need about four lakh more by 2020 to maintain the required ratio of one doctor per 1,000 people. By any reckoning, it's a tall order and ours is one leading step in meeting it to serve our society.