THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (GHULAM NABI AZAD)
(a) & (b) No such data for Organization for European Economic Co-operation (OECD) countries
is maintained in this Ministry. However, the Embassy of India in Paris has informed that the
OECD had brought out a Policy Brief in February 2010 dealing with “International Migration of
Health Workers†which mentioned that one of the main findings which emerge from the OECD/WHO
work with regard to the impact of health workers’ migration on origin countries is that a
significant share of international movements is occurring between OECD countries even though
the bulk of migration flows is originating from developing and emerging countries. Around the
year 2000, nurses born in the Philippines and doctors born in India accounted for the bulk of
the immigrant health workforce in the OECD. Further the outflow of health personnel from large
origin counties such as India and Russia – albeit large in absolute terms – remains low compared
with the size of their total workforce.
(c) The doctors, registered with Medical Council of India (MCI), who go abroad for pursuing
courses or for employment need to obtain Good Standing Certificates from MCI. The details of
Good Standing Certificates issued by MCI during the last three years and current year are as
under:
Year No. of Good Standing Certificates
2009 1386
2010 1264
2011 1368
2012 709
(upto 16.08.2012)
The cost of making a MBBS doctor in the country would depend on factors like cost of teaching
and service delivery to patients and would vary from state to state and between medical
colleges in the government sector and the private sector and no common estimation of such
cost is available.
(d) & (e) In order to discourage this practice among doctors working in Government, the
following steps have been taken by the Central Government:
(i) Pay and allowances of doctors have been enhanced considerably after implementation
of the 6th Central Pay Commission.
(ii) The age of superannuation of faculty of Central Government medical institutions has
been enhanced to 65 years.
(iii) Assured Promotion Scheme for faculty of Central Government Institutions has been
revised to make it more beneficial.
(iv) Various allowances available to faculty like Non Practicing Allowance, Conveyance
Allowance, Learning Resource Allowance, etc. have been enhanced considerably.
