Stay in India, Ramadoss tells doctors

He said around seventy per cent of medical professionals from India were working in outreach areas of USA. “Rather than working for the poor in the US, please work here…You are wanted here,” he said at the annual convocation of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh.

Ramadoss said at least 2.50 lakh patients from abroad visited India as part of medical tourism in the recent past.

“Don’t desert your country and settle abroad. Although some reversal of the infamous ‘brain drain’ process has started, it is simply not enough”, the Minister said.

He said more number of organ transplant centres would be opened in the country very soon. “There is a need to do research in the health sector…I wish the prestigious institute like PGIMER develops a good vaccine to control TB and malaria,” he said.