During the question hour, the treasury bench revealed that there were 1444 sanctioned posts for the doctors across the State with just 477 of them now working. While 522 posts for the medical officers are lying vacant 120 are now working, the House was informed. The number of sanctioned posts for the senior medical officers standing at 681, 256 SMOs are now working. Despite the State Government having conducted a walk- in interview, things were not encouraging, the House was informed. The State Government would try to send doctors by giving them promotional incentives.
leader of the Opposition Indira Hridayesh asked the State Government to reveal its roadmap to take on the doctors’ crunch.
Munna Singh Chouhan suggested the government to allow the dentists to prescribe medicines in the government-run hospitals while citing the fact that their education is more or less same in the first three years of the MBBS course. “Would the government allow the Ayurvedic practitioners to prescribe Allopathic medicinesIJ” he asked.
Preetam Singh asked the state government to reveal how many doctors they have recruited in April as part of walk-in interview. The parliamentary affairs minister Prakash Pant said that with April having just ended, the question was unwarranted.
In reply to another question, the treasury bench informed that five hospitals have gone into the in PPP mode for five years starting from May 2013.
The House was also informed that the state government has already terminated the contract of Rajbhra for its failure to conform to the government norms. MlA Preetam Singh Panwar said that Rajbhra payment being due to the Government, employees have not been paid salary for over a year.
He suggested the government to clear the salary while deducting the required sums from the dues. The Government assured that they would look into the matter.