India, April 8 -- Every year, as postgraduate (PG) medical seat counselling concludes, approximately 40,000 MBBS graduates are left without a postgraduate seat. Despite the government's efforts to increase both MBBS and PG seats over the past decade-culminating in a budget announcement of 10,000 additional seats this year and 75,000 over the next five years-the issue persists. By the next year, India will have over 115,000 MBBS seats and more than 70,000 PG seats, encompassing both clinical and non-clinical specialties. However, this expansion has yet to resolve the core issue of providing the right kind of doctors in the right geographies.

The real challenge lies not just in producing more doctors but in placing the right specialists in...