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| Despite High Court’s directions, hospitals continue to face shortage of doctors | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 24: The Union Territory of J&K is confronting the shortage of doctors in all health institutions even in medical colleges of Srinagar and Jammu which are facing huge pressure of patients.
According to reports posts of Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, Registrars and Lecturers are lying vacant in GMC Jammu only. As per reports forty-seven posts of Assistant Surgeon are lying vacant in Government Medical College Jammu. The deficiency impacts patient care as well as the health system in the UT of J&K.
This is the shortage of doctors in urban areas but the situation is worst in rural areas.
Two years ago on April 23, 2021, a Division Bench of the High Court expressed serious concern over the failure of the Government to overcome the acute shortage of doctors in the rural areas of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir even after repeated directions during the past three years.
The Court had sought to know what steps have been initiated by the Health and Medical Education Department so far or being contemplated so as to check reluctance on the part of freshly recruited doctors in providing services in the rural parts of Jammu and Kashmir.
While reacting to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) the High Court had passed these observations.
As per reports, a total of 630 doctors were appointed during the last couple of months in the Jammu division but 452 doctors either not joined or resigned after joining as a result of which the actual number of doctors working at their place of posting is 178. |
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