Nurse registrations in India have not kept pace with doctors, shows data

In 2014-15, while there were 3.4 registered nurses per operational doctors in the country, this declined to 3.1 in 2020-21

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 11 medical colleges in Tamil Nadu. At the inauguration, the PM remarked that the number of medical seats in the country (both undergraduate and graduate) had increased nearly 80 per cent since 2014.

Last year, during the Winter Session, the government, in a reply in Lok Sabha, had informed the country that the number of medical colleges had increased from 404 in 2014-15 to 596 in 2021-22.

Analysis of AISHE data between 2014-15 and 2019-20 shows that there has been a 72 per cent increase in enrollments in general medicine. In terms