If you don’t yet get how ominous this development is, let me break down the numbers for you: Colleges admitting students through AIPMT have a total of around 3,000 seats. If 700 of those were actually compromised (and there is strong chance that they were), almost 25 per cent undeserving people would be occupying those seats. Which translates into every fourth doctor passing out of these institutes being under-qualified. Couple that with the fact that India has less than one physician per 1,000 people. These numbers point towards an extremely grim future for India’s healthcare system.