AP Launches Counselling for First-Year MBBS Students

The Andhra Pradesh government has started a special program to help first-year medical students (MBBS) deal with stress and prevent suicides.

They teamed up with an organization called the QPR Institute of India to run this program.

The government noticed that many medical students, especially in their first year, feel very stressed and sometimes have thoughts of suicide.

A survey showed that a lot of students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, have these issues but are afraid to ask for help.

The program will check how students are feeling, give them counselling, and assign someone in each college to make sure everything runs smoothly.

The government will pay for the training, even for students in private colleges.

A doctor from the US will be in charge of the training.

This is the first time such a program has been started in India.