A top Indian government committee on health has said India needs to add 18,000 undergraduate and 11,000 graduate medical spots, set up 30 public medical colleges, and expand the country’s elite All India Institute of Medical Sciences to redress the acute shortage of doctors in India, The Times of India reports. For its part, the country’s health ministry will soon relax norms to facilitate the opening of new medical colleges, says a separate article in The Times of India. The government is concerned about the continuing exodus of Indian medical-school graduates, with more than 1,000 leaving the country to go abroad this year for better educational opportunities and better salaries, the Hindustan Times reports.