26/12/2025
KERALA IS PRODUCING A GENERATION OF BROKEN DOCTORS — AND NO ONE IN POWER CARES
Kerala loves to celebrate its “health model.”
But behind the applause, the state has started doing something unforgivable:
Mass-producing MBBS doctors it cannot employ, cannot train, and cannot protect.
The truth is not uncomfortable —
it is ugly.
Ugly enough that the medical establishment, politicians, private colleges, and even professional bodies want it buried.
But burying the truth does not stop the collapse.
Kerala is heading into a five-year implosion that will leave thousands of young doctors jobless, hopeless, and trapped in a profession that no longer wants them.
This is not a warning.
This is a post-mortem of a system collapsing in real time.
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FACT: KERALA HAS MORE DOCTORS THAN IT NEEDS — AND THE STATE IS STILL ADDING MORE
Every year, 5,000 new MBBS doctors enter Kerala.
For what jobs?
For what hospitals?
For what vacancies?
There is no plan.
There never was a plan.
Kerala’s doctor density is double the national average, yet salaries for new MBBS doctors are:
₹28,000 in Kochi
₹32,000 in Kottayam
₹35,000 in Thiruvananthapuram
Imagine studying for 7–8 years, spending ₹70 lakh–₹1 crore, and earning less than a supermarket manager.
But the system tells these young doctors:
“Be grateful. At least you got a job.”
This isn’t gratitude.
This is humiliation disguised as opportunity.
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THE STATE IS LETTING PRIVATE HOSPITALS TURN DOCTORS INTO CHEAP SHIFT WORKERS
Corporate hospitals in Kerala have perfected a business model:
1. Pay MBBS graduates peanuts.
2. Overwork them with 24-hour duties.
3. Call it “experience.”
4. Replace them with the next desperate batch.
This is not training.
This is extraction.
Medicine in Kerala has become a conveyor belt.
Students enter with dreams.
They exit with burnout, debt, and trauma.
And the government?
Completely silent.
Why?
Because MBBS unemployment is an inconvenient truth for the healthcare mythology Kerala aggressively sells.
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THE PG SYSTEM IS A RIGGED GAME — A BOTTLE NECK DESIGNED TO BREAK YOUNG DOCTORS
Kerala has nowhere near enough PG seats for its exploding MBBS numbers.
Everyone knows this.
Everyone ignores it.
The result:
1–4 years trapped in NEET-PG
Coaching centre slavery
Depression
Financial suffocation
Families drained emotionally and financially
Kerala has created a caste system within medicine:
MBBS at the bottom, PG at the top, and no ladder in between.
If PG is essential for a decent income — and it is — why is the system structured to shut out half the doctors every year?
Because the crisis benefits the ecosystem:
More coaching fees
More “bonded labour” doctors
More exploitation
More cheap workforce
Everyone gains — except the doctor.
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THE WORST TRUTH: KERALA KNOWS THERE IS NO JOB MARKET — YET KEEPS EXPANDING MBBS
This is not ignorance.
This is deliberate negligence.
Despite having one of the lowest population growth rates in India…
Despite having one of the highest doctor densities in Asia…
Despite hospitals already saturated…
Despite offering MBBS salaries lower than a fresh BCom job…
Kerala still produces thousands more MBBS graduates every year.
Why?
Because MBBS education is now an industry.
Because private colleges need fresh fee-paying families every year.
Because medical seats are business, not service.
Kerala is not building a healthcare workforce.
Kerala is building a medical labour surplus.
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THE NEXT FIVE YEARS WILL BE BRUTAL — NO ONE IS PREPARED
2025–2027
MBBS unemployment becomes visible
Stipends stagnate or fall
Non-clinical jobs absorb desperate graduates
2027–2030
MBBS donation seats go unfilled in lower-tier private colleges
More young doctors flee Kerala looking for survival, not opportunity
PG bottleneck becomes inescapable
2030 onwards
Kerala becomes the first Indian state where MBBS unemployment is normalised, expected, and even joked about.
A state that once led India in health will now lead India in doctor despair.
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THE FINAL QUESTION KERALA MUST BE FORCED TO ANSWER
Why does a state with no vacant jobs…
keep manufacturing more MBBS doctors…
and then abandon them?
Until Kerala answers this honestly —
not with pride, not with slogans, not with PR —
the system will continue producing:
Broken careers
Financially ruined families
Depressed, directionless young doctors
And an entire generation that regrets ever choosing medicine
This isn’t a “health crisis.”
This is a failure of governance, planning, ethics, and honesty.
And Kerala’s young doctors are paying the price.
Anonymous.