She has spent the day counselling students who are likely to meet the NEET cutoff but won’t get admission in government-run medical colleges. Here, often the fees is below Rs 1 lakh for the entire MBBS course of five years.The remaining 60,000 seats in India are in private colleges and deemed universities. These institutes charge an annual fees of between Rs 18 lakh to Rs 30 lakh. For a five-year course, that works out to a cost between Rs 90 lakh to Rs 1 crore.This is not all. Apart from Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan being favourite destinations for medical students from India, Philippines, and now Bangladesh have emerged as meccas for medical aspirants.‘A number of students aspiring to become doctors choose to take admission in medical colleges in foreign countries.

Source: Economic Times October 31, 2021 02:32 UTC