Q:

What solution is being offered by the Health Ministry for the shortage of doctors in rural areas? 

• 1
  Increase the number of government run hospitals in the rural areas thereby increasing the number of doctors catering to the people in these regions.
• 2
  Make it mandatory for doctors serving in the urban areas to serve in the rural areas for a specific number of years.
• 3
  Set up increasing number of community health centres in rural areas.
• 4
  Hire retired professors of medicine to offer medical help to people living in the rural areas till the time more doctors are appointed.
• 5
  Run a separate medical course for three and a half years which can be taken up only by rural candidates who would ultimately serve in the rural areas.