| CVDA demands filling up of vacant posts of medicos, paramedics | | |  Early times Report
Doda, Feb 15: The Chenab Valley Doctors Association (CVDA) has expressed great concern about the growing unemployment of professionally qualified medical youth of Jammu & Kashmir and urged the State Govt should explore all possible avenues to fill up all the vacant posts of Medicos and Paramedics in Health Department.
Addressing the media persons at Doda, President CVDA Dr Hamid Parray has expressed serious concern over the increasing number of unemployment rate of Doctors and Paramedics in J&K which is higher growing rate of unemployment in health sector than other states of the country. Dr Parray briefed the media that, as per medical education record, J&K produces 500 MBBS, 200 ISM, 200 BDS and 1600 Paranedics every year and in addition to it, more than 600 students of J&K obtained their medical degrees like MBBD, BDS, BUMS, BAMS, BHMS etc from other states and abroad as well.
Dr Parray underlined some facts that due to non availability of govt jobs, thousands of medical trained doctors and paramedics have been forced to serve other states and country in terms of health care is concerned as 2100 BDS, 1301 MBBS, 1679 ISM and 6500 trained Paramedics are still jobless in our state.
President Doda District Unit of CVDA, Dr Shabir Hussain Parigaroo also spoke on the occasion and briefed the media that increasing number of unemployment among Medicos and Paramedics is a serious issue, adding that to overcome this problem and to improve the health sector more. |
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