Health Ministry considers Faculty sharing to tackle medical teaching crisis

Contemplating a solution for faculty shortage, the Union Health Ministry is open to faculty sharing between medical colleges as it plans to add 10,000 new medical seats in the upcoming academic year i.e. 2025-2026, Business Standard has reported.

While speaking about this possibility, the Union Health Secretary Punya Salia Srivastava said that several experts had given recommendations to expand the faculty pool by permitting the sharing of the faculties between the medical colleges, especially in non-clinical subjects.