The health services of Uttarakhand severely affected by acute shortage of doctors would soon get a much needed relief as 172 dental doctors are slated to join it.
On Thursday, the Uttarakhand Medical Services Selection Board (UMSSB) declared the result of the dental doctors’ recruitment examination. The selection board has selected 53 dental doctors on the vacant posts in the dental cadre while 119 candidates were selected in the additional dental cadre against vacant posts of allopathic doctors. The UMSSB however could not find suitable candidates for 28 posts which were reserved for scheduled caste (SC) and three that were reserved for Other Backward castes (OBC). The board has declared that the recruitment would remain effective as per the final judgement in the pending cases on the issue in the high court.
The Chairman of UMSSB, Dr IS Pal said that the board has forwarded the list of the selected doctors to the State administration with recommendation of appointment.
For recruitment of 203 posts of Dental doctors for State health services the UMSSB had conducted an entrance examination on January 22 this year.
After the written test the board invited 440 candidates for the interviews which were held in the month of July. The candidates were interviewed by different selection boards from July 24 to July 28.
The interview carries ten marks while weightage of written examination was 90.