“The number of Chinese-trained doctors working in the OECD was much lower at around 8,000 that picked mostly the U.S. and Australia as their destinations.”
With 75,000 Indian-trained doctors working abroad, India becomes the number one country from where the maximum number of domestically trained doctors are working abroad.
The Indian doctors are working mostly in OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries, “Almost two thirds of these professionals settled in the U.S., while 19,000 headed for the UK,” said a report in statista.com.
Though India and Indians can boast of the situation that they are driving force behind the healthcare system in many countries, the healthcare situation in India is just opposite keeping in mind a vast population and unavailability of doctor in remote areas.
“Density of doctors in India is very low in an international comparison. Even if all expat doctors came home, it would not bolster India’s medical workforce by much,’ said the statista report.
Though India and Indians can boast of the situation that they are driving force behind the healthcare system in many countries, the healthcare situation in India is just opposite keeping in mind a vast population and unavailability of doctor in remote areas
According to the report, the number of Chinese-trained doctors working in the OECD was much lower at around 8,000 that picked mostly the U.S. and Australia as their destinations.
“While the effects of this doctor brain drain are significant for the country, the source for India’s low doctor density lies deeper. Comparing the number of Indian expat doctors to the number of physicians practicing in India, expat doctors equal just over 7 percent of the Indian domestic doctor workforce. This is comparable to the figure for the UK and only somewhat higher than the number for Germany. Yet, both of these countries have a much higher doctor density than India, leading to the conclusion that India trains too few doctors overall or itself doesn’t attract enough doctors from other places,” said the report.
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