Altogether 119 Medicos Committed Suicide in the last 5 years, 1166 left institutes: NMC reveals in RTI reply
New Delhi: In the last five years, altogether 119 medical students committed suicide and 1,166 students left medical colleges and institutes, the National Medical Commission (NMC) revealed while replying to a Right to Information (RTI) query.
Referring to the data submitted by 512 medical colleges in the country, the Apex medical education regulatory body, NMC has further revealed that 64 UG and 55 MD/MS students committed suicides in the last five years.
This information was shared by NMC while responding to a RTI query raised by Vivek Pandey, a social and political activist. He had sought to know from the apex medical regulator about the number of students who committed suicide during the last 5 years, and also the number of colleges who left the colleges and institutions during that period.
Giving breakup regarding the number of students who left medical colleges, NMC revealed that altogether 160 UG medical students left institutes. In case of PG medical courses, 114 MS General Surgery, 50 MS Orthopaedics, 103 OBG, 100 MS ENT, 56 MD General Medicine, 54 MD Paediatrics, 529 students belonging to other specialties left the colleges during this time.
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