Child specialists aren't where most of India's kids are

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• Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan between them account for nearly half of all children born in India each year but have barely one-sixth of the pediatricians in the country. The imbalance between where the need for child specialists is and where they are available is just as pronounced within states with most of them concentrated in the bigger cities while the villages are where most children are.
• In UP and Bihar, which have the largest child populations, for instance, a large chunk of pediatricians, about 60% and 46% respectively, are concentrated in the top few cities.
• The skew in distribution within larger states is the worst in West Bengal where over 74% of pediatricians in the state are in the Greater Kolkata region (Kolkata, Hooghly, Howrah and North and South 24 Parganas districts), followed by Telangana, where almost 69% are in the Greater Hyderabad area (Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Rangareddy districts)"

We see so many Indian doctors in most of the countries I have visited and lived in the past 50 years and there is a dearth of doctors in India, especially to look after our national treasure, the children. 

It is time the Medical schools make an attempt to educate only those who are willing to work in areas where there is a scarcity. It is time the government support students who are willing to work in place there is a scarcity. China would enforce this.

Jai Hind

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