Facing acute staff shortage in heath institutions of the State, the Haryana Government would soon recruit 1,000 doctors, 2,800 paramedical staff and 100 dentists.
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Monday said that with a view to meet shortage of doctors in the State, the Government would recruit 1,000 more doctors and 100 dentists. Apart from this, advertisement has been released for about 2,800 paramedical posts and recruitment on them would soon be started.
Recently, 761 doctors have been recruited in the State, said the Minister while speaking at a function in Panchkula.
The State is witnessing acute shortage of manpower and massive gaps in health infrastructure. The National Health Profile 2015 released recently showed that there were only 29 specialists working in Community Health Centres in the entire Haryana while there were only 395 doctorsat Primary Health Centres.
According to NHP 2015, every Government hospital in Haryana serves over 1.6 lakh patients while there is only one bed for every 3,481 people in the State. Apart from this, every Allopathic doctor serves more than 10,000 people while a dental surgeon serve more than 47,000 people in Haryana, stated the NHP released by Union Health Ministry.
Earlier, the Rural Health Statistics 2014-15 released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had also pointed out that the sub centres, PHCs and CHCs, which forms the backbone of rural healthcare delivery apparatus are facing acute shortage of specialist doctors and functioning with meager manpower in State.
It had revealed shortfall of 406 specialists, including 102 paediatricians, 98 physicians, 103 OB&GY and 103 surgeons in CHCs, shortfall of 1387 health workers (male) at sub centres, 228 health assistants (male) at PHCs, 175 health assistance female at PHCs, 133 laboratory technicians in PHCs and CHCs, 62 pharmacists and shortfall of 56 radiographers in PHCs and CHCs in Haryana.
Meanwhile, the Health Minister said the State Government is working to fill the vacant posts in the health institutions. He added the State Government has eliminated interview system in recruitment to Group-D posts and reserved 12 per cent marks for interview on general category posts.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi too announced to completely eliminate interview system for non-gazetted posts of Group-D, C and B. Earlier, Governments used to sell Government jobs, but now youth would get jobs on merit basis, he added. The Minister added that in order to put a complete check on corruption, tendering process has been made online which besides generating additional revenue, has also brought complete transparency in the this process.