Half a dozen more medical graduates would be sent to the local areas as there has been a deficit in the number of doctors available in the country. Minister for Rural and Regional Health Warren Snowdon says that, 50 per cent of the medical graduates will be providing services to rural and regional areas of Australia.

After the completion of training, the doctors will be persuaded to head to the country side as they would be given special incentives for this task, expected to begin from July.

Last year's budget announced by Rural Health Workforce Strategy stated to invest a sum of $134 million to improve the working conditions with a superior increase in payments, and many other provisions which would be granted to the doctors. A positive response has been received from a group of general practitioners, medical scholars and country health workers.

With 600 hundred more doctors available to help in treating people, it is hopefully going to bring a lot of relief to the patients in the country areas. The real challenge to face is, training such a huge number of doctors at one go.