The State Government is planning to fill up all the 74 vacant posts of doctors in different departments of Jagdalpur Medical College and Hospital besides also filling the 55 vacant posts including that of counsellor and laboratory technicians in the state AIDS control committee.
According to information received from Medical Education Department directorate, dozens of post of doctors are lying vacant in the B R Kashyap Memorial Medical College, Jagdalpur for last some years due to which even the Medical Council of India approval to various streams of the college is also on stake.
Therefore, after requisitioning the application from the College administration preparation for appointment on these posts are being made. According to sources, in Jagdalpur Medical College 4 posts of Anatomy, 5 of physiology, 6 posts of Pharmacology, 9 posts of Pathology, 2 posts in Microbiology, 6 posts in Forensic Medicine, 2 posts in PSM, 13 posts in Medicine, 6 posts in TB and Chest, 4 in Skin diseases, 3 of Psychiatry, 7 posts in Paediatrics, 15 in Surgery, 9 post of Orthopaedic, 5 of Optics, 6 posts in Ear, Nose, Throat (E N T), 10 in Gynaecology, 20 of Anaesthetics, 12 of Radio Diagnosis, 2 of Dentists, and 4 posts in Radio Therapy department will be filled.
Junior as well as senior doctors will be appointed on these posts on contract basis. According to officials, with these appointments, scarcity of doctors in the Medical College and Hospital could be solved up to some extent.
State AIDS Control Committee of the health Department too has decided to fill 28 posts of counsellors and 27 posts of laboratory technicians falling vacant in 17 districts. Applications for these vacant posts are being invited at the district level. Selection of the candidate would be done by district level departmental committees on the basis of merit.
According to Additional Project Director Dr S K Binjhwar, these posts have fallen vacant only recently as the staff working on these posts have been given permanent appointment in different offices of the department leading to large scale vacancy at a time.