300 more doctors will be recruited in the health department: Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat

300 more doctors will be recruited soon in the Medical Health and Family Welfare Department. For this, departmental officials have been instructed to send a requisition to the State Medical Service Selection Board. Apart from this, the services of 56 bond-holding doctors who were absent from the department for a long time have been terminated. The medical college has also been instructed to recover the bond amount from these dismissed doctors as per the contract. The state’s Medical Health and Medical Education Minister Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat told the media in a statement that recently doctors were recruited on 220 posts of Medical Officer (backlog) in the Provincial Medical and Health Service Cadre under the Health Department, who have also been deployed at remote health centers of the state. Apart from this, about 300 posts of doctors are lying vacant in the department. For quick recruitment on these posts, departmental officers have been instructed to prepare a roster and send a requisition to the Uttarakhand Medical Service Selection Board, so that the selection board can complete the recruitment process on time and provide new doctors to the department. The departmental minister said that the state government is engaged in creating a better health system in the state, under which the government is also deploying doctors along with infrastructure in health units of remote areas, so that better treatment can be ensured to the general public in the nearest hospitals. Apart from this, the government is also not averse to showing the way out to such personnel who are careless towards their responsibilities. In this sequence, the government had last month instructed the officers to take action for dismissal along with recovery against 234 absent bond-holding doctors who had passed out from government medical colleges. As a result, 178 doctors who were absent have joined the department again. Whereas 56 doctors ignored the final warning. All these 56 absent doctors have been dismissed, and the Director of Medical Education has also been instructed to recover the bond amount from all the absent doctors as per the terms of the bond. Dr. Rawat told that under a contract, MBBS education is provided to students in the state’s government medical colleges at a minimum fee. Under this contract, after completion of MBBS education, it is mandatory for these students to serve for 5 years in the medical units of the hilly districts of the state. In case of not doing so, these doctors have to deposit the prescribed amount in the bond and take NOC from the department, only then their educational certificates are returned to them. There is a provision to recover the amount prescribed in the bond from the doctors if the terms of the contract are not followed.