The unemployed diploma pharmacists have threatened to intensify their agitation if the State Government fails to act on their demand for filling the vacant posts of pharmacists in the hospitals of the State.
Addressing newsmen here on Wednesday the President of Unemployed Diploma pharmacists association Manoj Tripathi said that the state government should immediately fill more than 4000 posts of pharmacists in various hospitals of State as the Government has not recruited the pharmacists since the creation of the State. He said that the thousands of diploma pharmacists of Uttarakhand are waiting endlessly for Government to initiate recruitment.
Tripathi warned that the state government would be solely responsible if the desperate unemployed diploma pharmacists take any extreme step like self immolation or fast unto death. He said that the association is determined to take their agitation to logical end this time.The Vice president of the association Sunil Nath said that after creation of Uttarakhand the state government continuously neglected the diploma pharmacists.He blamed the State Government for ignoring improvement in the health facilities of state as large numbers of positions of pharmacists are lying vacant despite a rapid increase in the population.