Chhattisgarh government is working on a proposal to seek help from the private medical practitioners to meet the shortage of government doctors in the state.
The state government will consider the proposal to reach an agreement with private doctors to over come the shortage of government doctors in the state, state's health minister Amar Agrawal told the Assembly. "The proposal is in the initial stage and the modalities will be worked out soon to start the practice that will be an alternate arrangement in the places where government doctors are not posted," Agrawal added.
The minister said despite conducting recruitment drive three times in the past five years, the vacabcues could not be filled. In all, 1,400 posts of government doctors are lying vacant in the state.
Beside 400 Ayurvedic doctors, the department had recruited 800 doctors who had completed three-year medical course introduced in the state. Agrawal said efforts were on to get recognition for the Jagdalpur Medical College set up four years ago. "Hopefully, the college will get the recognition in the fifth year," the minister said. The dearth of sufficient doctors and professors in the medical college had come in the way of getting recognition.
"Salary is not an issue and the government is ready to pay the professors willing to work in Jagdalpur three times the pay they are getting in Raipur," Agrawal said, adding that still, no one was willing to go to Jagdalpur.
