Q: What solution is being offered by the Health Ministry for the shortage of doctors in rural areas?

• A. Increase the number of government run hospitals in the rural areas thereby increasing the number of doctors catering to the people in these regions.
• B. Make it mandatory for doctors serving in the urban areas to serve in the rural areas for a specific number of years.
• C. Set up increasing number of community health centres in rural areas.
• D. Hire retired professors of medicine to offer medical help to people living in the rural areas till the time more doctors are appointed.
• E. Run a separate medical course for three and a half years which can be taken up only by rural candidates who would ultimately serve in the rural areas.