How Many Doctors Registered with Medical Councils? Health Ministry gives State, UT Wise Break-Up in Parliament

New Delhi: As per the data available from the National Medical Commission (NMC), there are altogether 13,86,136 allopathic doctors practising in India with the highest number of doctors registered with the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC).

Maharashtra Medical Council has altogether 209540 registered allopathic doctors, followed by 149399 doctors registered with the Tamil Nadu Medical Council (TNMC) and 141154 doctors registered with the Karnataka Medical Council (KMC).

The data in this regard was recently shared by the Union Minister of State for Health Smt Anupriya Patel, who was responding to the questions raised in the Lok Sabha by Shri Khalilur Rahaman.

Shri Rahaman sought to know the details of the medical infrastructure in the country, the details of the prevailing and desired patient-doctor ratio in the country, along with the steps taken by the Government to increase the patient-doctor ratio.

In response to these questions, MoS Patel informed that there are 731 medical colleges in India with an annual intake of 1,12,112 MBBS seats as of now. Further, there are 72,627 PG seats available in the country.

"As per information provided by National Medical Commission (NMC), there are 13,86,136 allopathic doctors registered with the State Medical Councils and the National Medical Commission (NMC) as on July, 2024. Assuming 80% availability of registered allopathic doctors and around 5.65 lakh AYUSH doctors, the doctor-population ratio in the country is around 1:836 which is better than the WHO standard of 1:1000," she further informed.

Minister Patel also provided the State/UT-wise details of the allopathic doctors registered with the State Medical Councils/ National Medical Commission (NMC).

As per the State/UT-wise details of Allopathic Doctors registered with State Medical Councils/National Medical Commission as of July, 2024, as provided by MoS Patel, Maharashtra has the highest number i.e. altogether 209540 allopathic medical practitioners.

Tamil Nadu earns the second place as TNMC has 149399 registered allopathic doctors, followed by Karnataka Medical Council (KMC), which has 141154 doctors registered with it and Andhra Pradesh Medical Council (APMC), which has 105805 registered allopathic practitioners.

Apart from these, more than 50,000 doctors are registered with State Medical Councils including Gujarat Medical Council (79169 doctors), Punjab Medical Council (53446 doctors), Travancore Medical Council (73069 doctors), Uttar Pradesh Medical Council (99737 doctors), and West Bengal Medical Council (78759 doctors).

Further, as per the NMC data, 1660 doctors are registered with Arunachal Pradesh Medical Council,  25980 doctors are registered with Assam Medical Council, 48200 doctors are registered with Bihar Medical Council, 10962 doctors are registered with Chhattisgarh Medical Council, 31479 doctors are registered with Delhi Medical Council, 4720 doctors are registered with Goa Medical Council, and 15714 doctors are registered with Haryana Medical Council.

Besides, there are 7296 allopathic doctors registered with Himachal Pradesh Medical Council, 18720 doctors with Jammu & Kashmir Medical Council, 8544 doctors with Jharkhand Medical Council, 49730 doctors with Madhya Pradesh Medical Council, 156 with Mizoram and 166 doctors registered with Nagaland Medical Council, 29792 doctors registered with Odisha Medical Council, 49049 doctors registered with Rajasthan Medical Council, 1880 doctors with Sikkim Medical Council, 10249 doctors with Uttaranchal Medical Council, 2683 doctors registered with Tripura Medical Council, and 26411 allopathic doctors registered with Telangana Medical Council. The data revealed that altogether 52667 doctors are registered with the erstwhile Medical Council of India, which stopped the registration since 2015.

i. Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) for establishment of new medical colleges by upgrading district/ referral hospital under which 157 new medical colleges have been approved, out of which 109 are already functional.

ii. CSS for strengthening/ upgradation of existing State Government/ Central Government medical colleges to increase the number of MBBS (UG) and PG seats, under which support has been provided for increase of 4977 MBBS seats in 83 colleges with an approved cost of Rs. 5972.20 Cr, 4058 PG seats in phase-I in 72 colleges with an approved cost of Rs. 1498.43 cr and 4000 PG seats in phase-II in 65 colleges with an approved cost of Rs. 4478.25 Cr.

iii. Under "Upgradation of Government medical colleges by construction of Super Specialty Blocks" component of Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), a total of 75 projects have been approved, of which 66 projects are complete.

iv. Under the Central Sector Scheme for setting up of new AIIMS, 22 AIIMS have been approved. Undergraduate courses have started in 19 of these.

v. DNB qualification has been recognized for appointment as teaching faculty to take care of shortage of faculty.

vi. Enhancement of age limit for appointment/ extension/ re-employment against posts of teachers/dean/principal/ director in medical colleges upto 70 years.

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