The Uttarakhand Medical Services Selection Board (UMSSB) has released recruitment advertisement for appointment of 712 medical officers for the state health services. These appointments are expected to bring a major relief to the people of the state as health services in remote and mountainous areas of the state have become virtually defunct due to absence of doctors. The UMSSB has released the recruitment notification for MO (Ordinary grade) in pursuance of the requisition made by the Uttarakhand government.
Out of the 712 posts, 200 are reserved for Schedule Caste, 33 for Schedule Tribe (ST) and 154 are reserved for the Other Backward Castes (OBC).
The Secretary of the board N S Dangi said that the interested candidates can apply online for these posts and the last date of the applications is October 20. The board would follow the pattern of vertical and horizontal reservation in the recruitment. For selection of suitable candidates an interview would be scheduled by the board but in case of number of application are huge in numbers against the number of vacant posts the board may decide to conduct a written screening examination before interview in form of an objective written test.
The selected MO would be inducted in the pay scale of 56100- 177500 (level 10). For specialist diploma holders, a benefit of three increments would be provided while five increments would be given to all specialist degree holders. Seven increments would be provided to the all super specialist degree holders.
The state health services would get a major boost if UMSSB is able to recruit these doctors in time. Acute shortage of MO in the state health services have created problems for the people and have also accelerated migration from the mountainous parts.
The departmental data reveals that as many as 1615 posts of total 2711 posts of doctors are lying vacant at present. A staggering 60 percent of vacant posts have rendered the entire health system of state seriously ill. In the remote and mountainous parts of the state the situation of absence of doctors is very alarming and in almost all such places the health services are non existent.