Centre's nod to adding 3,791 post-graduate seats in medical colleges does not seem to be the answer to India's healthcare system.

In India there is one doctor per 2,800 people as compared to one doctor per 1,500 according to international standards.

The minister for health, Ghulam Nabi Azad, seems not to be doing much for pushing to increase spending on public health from the measly 0.9 per cent of GDP at present.

Shortage of doctors is one problem and no motivation for going to rural areas where India's population actually resides is other.

At the moment the problems that need urgent attention are lack of quality in public health centres with either staff or equipment.

If we listen to Azad then more post-graduate doctors would mean more number of teachers. But it does not clear how this would automatically mean that the number of MBBS seats could be expanded.