I read an article while surfing thru the net, which featured in The Times Of India, Saturday 1 November 2003,
But fortunately or unfortunately it’s a whole different situation now as in 2006, 3 years later. Britain seems to have got smart and changed so many rules that many doctors from the UK have packed their bags and come back for good.
After teachers and nurses it’s the psychiatrist’s turn to get lured by the Queen’s own country, UK.Along with Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad the trend is taking Pune in its wings with doctors saying the English want more. Britain ’s National Health Service has been openly accused of indulging in the “Great Brain robbery”.
According to statistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, India has one psychiatrist per 30,0000 population in comparison to one per 90,000 population in UK . From which, Maharashtra has approximately 500 psychiatrists, while the number of psychiatrists in Pune stands at about 80, who according to the latest reports have been bitten by the UK bug. When there is an excess of manpower in any particular field, a foreign Government can take permission from the domestic Government to advertise for jobs. That’s what the British Government has been doing for the last couple of years. The brain drain could be attributed to this. Moreover, applicants can now also do the procedure on-line through the department of Health UK .But the process is anything but easy, and involves years of experience, several credentials, a good amount of research and various levels of screening to then finally be UK bound.
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