Daily Excelsior: Jammu: Friday, January 05, 2018.
Staff
shortage is severely hitting healthcare in hilly districts of Jammu region
where 184, out of 259 hospitals, are
without doctors.
This was
disclosed by RTI activist S Balvinder Singh, here today while shared the
information received from Directorate of Health Service Jammu, under
Right to Information Act.
“Out of
259 PHCs, NPHCs and CHCs in the hilly and remotest areas of almost all the districts of Jammu
province, 184 of them are running without any doctor,” he said and added that
there was a shortage of 982 doctors in
the health sector across Jammu province
as only 1073 doctors are in position
against the sanctioned strength of 1926 doctors.
While hilly
districts are suffering because of staff shortage, 93 doctors are working as surplus in Jammu
district and a few others in adjoining areas,
Singh disclosed. “Recently some
doctors, from the surplus category and doctors working without post were
transferred with the intervention of
Chief Minister but to the utter surprise most of the transferee have not
yet been relieved,” he added.
Sharing
details, the RTI activist revealed that
in Doda district, there are only 65
specialists and medical officers in place against the sanctioned strength of
210 while 34 out of 35 hospitals
are without doctors.
Similarly in
Kishtwar, he added, there is a shortage
59 doctors while 13 out of 21 health centres are without doctors.
Rajouri has
shortage of 159 specialists and medical
officers and 25 out of 42 health centres are being run without any doctor while
Poonch has only 64 doctors in position
against the sanctioned strength of 205 doctors.
Ramban
district has shortage of 76 doctors
while 25 out of 42 health centres are without single doctors. Reasi has only 37 doctors in place against the sanction strength of 101
while 18 out of 25 health centres are without doctors
In Udhampur,
there is a shortage of 106 doctors in the district and 29 out of 40 PHCs, NTPHCs & CHCs, all
situated in the remotest area like Shamthi, Sartingal, Gatha, Sarnaha, Thanala
etc, are running without any doctor.
In
Kathua, there is a shortage of 94 doctors while 19
out of 37 health centres are without doctors.
Others,
present in the press conference, included
Ayaz Ahmad Khan, Mahesh Kotwal and
Manmohan Singh.
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