It's still very much possible to become a doctor in India ( both MBBS and beyond) practically free.
MBBS: After getting through the entrance you just have to go through scolarship tests ( it used to semester...don't know what happens now) and a rank in top 10 in the class will ensure that you don't have to pay any tuition fees, plus you will get a small amount of money too. Trust me, it's not difficult at all..both my sister and myself got it easily.
Post MBBS: You get a stipend from intership till PhD.
I possibly never bought a new book before MD, every book was available in the hostel from some senior or other ( who could afford them)
Medical education is still practically free in India if someone studies hard enough ( it is no rocket science...initially you memorize pre and para clinical subjects gradually most of the things get much easier during clinical subjects)
But it takes some very hard work, tenacity and patience for years.
So please don't expect all of us to work for few thousand EUR in India. Moreover it's not only money, there's no ecosystem of research in medical science in India ( ICMR controls it!!!!)
In US/ EU one breakthrough paper can change your life, in India, nobody cares about papers.
Becoming a doctor in India means with the hundred or so seats per state out of thousands so come out of intermediate colleges opting for Bipc to become a doctor is like waiting in Que for 1st day show tickets unless you have monies to pay for donation seat to study medicine.
But for engineering colleges there are so many in and around our Hyderabad and many Mncs including local companies go and select students based on merit which are freshers and others too get selected by showing their experience which obviously might be fake but it happened for my wifey as she got a plump job in Infosys by showing 3 years as experience where the previous recruiter did not honor his commitment by selecting many from her college so she just improvised after 3 years and 2 years into our marriage.
Like you said
Yes there is a lot of scope for doctors with MDs here in India because that what I see all the time here in Hyderabad.
But there arent a single doctor in any of the villages where my mom or my wife came from other than RMPs only.
Why because
Here in urban or in our native place like semi urban localities people get paid well along with the standard of living is also a major factor nowadays.
So by comparing india to G8 countries those who can or want to do a stint there would obviously go and render their services and get paid along with good standard of living there.
I am not a bhakt of BJP but after they came into power in 2014 they made mandatory to all IItians to do social services for a stipulated period to get graduated because after all its the govt paying for all the IITs which in turn is anyways peoples monies which are got by collecting taxes.
So this above move is a welcome change apart from the many other moves or changes taken by the present regime.
In times of hardships or strife a mans mind shall be revealed
So like the above saying goes
We all should stand united and support the people we elected not abuse them now in these testing times because its us who brought them there by voting.
If all goes well we say what a man or party
If anything like this comes we should not blame them now
Corona virus isnt brought by any party in India
So even the mightiest country faced it and because of its small population vaccination got completed so soon. Even them are facing some difficulties like everybody.
So we should change our perspective and cross this hurdle by staying unit3d everybody of us.
This is my opinion.
Even for any profession or education for that matter positive thinking always brings good thoughts and one can cross anything put forward to him or her.
So many possibilities are available now not like when we studied.
Even greater possibilities will arise in the future for our kids etc