In an attempt to further strengthen the state health services the Uttarakhand government has started the process of recruitment of 763 medical officers (MOs). On the direction of Chief Minister (CM) Trivendra Singh Rawat the state administration has sent a recruitment requisition to the Uttarakhand Medical Services Selection Board (UMSSB). It has also asked the board to release the recruitment advertisement for these 763 posts of MOs and complete the process on a basis of priority.
It is pertinent to mention here that UMSSB had recruited more than 400 MOs for the state health services in the month of April this year.
In view of the outbreak of the Covid-19, the State government had given permission to the board to recruit 276 more doctors than the advertised posts last year.
Commenting on the development, CM Rawat said that induction of 763 doctors would further strengthen the health system in the state. He said that the health infrastructure has witnessed improvement in recent times and the number of doctors has been doubled.
The CM said that Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facility is now available in every district and telemedicine and Tele -radiology service has commenced in the State.
He added that 400 doctors were recruited during the Covid-19 pandemic and arrangements for 273 ICU beds, 165 ventilators and 33 BiPAP machines were made by the government. Rawat said that arrangements for piped oxygen supply are being made in all the 13 district and base hospitals.
He said that the state has been successful in containing the contagion of Covid-19 and the recovery rate of Uttarakhand is among the best in the country.
The death rate in the state is also less in comparison to national average, he added.