As many as 2,473 Medical Officers were inducted into the State medical services. Of them, 2,392 are MBBS doctors and 81 are dental surgeons. An orientation programme for this was graced by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik held at the Kalinga Stadium here on Thursday.
Addressing the new doctors, Patnaik said, “Remember that every pie spent on our salary or for the building we are working in is paid by the people of Odisha. We are here to serve them.”
He said that his government is committed to providing universal access to quality health care services to all. “Our objective is Sustha Odisha, Sukhi Odisha. Our guiding principle to achieve this objective is ‘every life is precious’”, he added.
“We are producing eight times more doctors now than we were doing two decades ago. We will come up with more numbers of medical colleges in a few years,” he added.
