To provide medical facilities to the pilgrims on Char Dham Yatra route, the health and family welfare department has deployed 60 doctors at various points of the Yatra. These doctors would be deployed on a rotational basis to serve the pilgrims.
The Director General (DG) of Health services, Dr G S Joshi has directed all Chief Medical Officers (CMO), and Chief Medical Superintendents (CMS) of hospitals to ensure that these doctors are relieved from the places of their postings to the mentioned points on Char Dham Yatra routes.
The department has posted the doctors at limcholi, Gaurikund, Phata, Guptkashi, Bhimbali and Kedarnath base camp all in Rudraprayag district, Gangotri and Yamnotri in Uttarkashi district and Joshimath in Chamoli district. The health directorate has ordered that no leaves would be sanctioned to the doctors deployed on Yatra duties.
The DG has tersely ordered the CMOs and CMSs to initiate disciplinary action against the doctors who do not join their Yatra duties. He has also directed the senior officers to make the travel plans for the doctors deployed on Yatra duty.