India has 1,18,190 MBBS, 74,306 PG medical seats: Health Minister informs Parliament
"Tthere are a total number of 74,306 Postgraduate seats and 1,18,190 MBBS seats in the country," Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Smt. Anupriya Patel stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha recently.
The Minister was responding to the queries raised by Niranjan Bishi and Sulata Deo regarding the number of postgraduate (PG) and MBBS graduates passing out each year from medical colleges in each State during the last five years, year-wise and State-wise; and the doctors to patient ratio in each State of the country with a comparison of 2004 and 2024, alongwith the number of doctors and total population for each State during those years.
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