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| People of rural areas deprived of specialist docs | | | Bijay Charak
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 29: Despite winning accolade on national platform for better health care facilities as vast population of state particularly in rural areas remains deprived of specialist doctors.
As per latest Rural Health Statistics 2014, data clearly indicates that in state proper planning for making available requisite manpower and other facilities in rural health care institutions has not received.
According to report, across the state there are total 315 sanctioned posts of Specialist doctors for the Community Health Centres (CHCs). However, against this only 176 Specialist doctors are in place while as 139 posts are lying vacant for years.
Similarly, against 2253 sanctioned posts of Health Workers for Sub-Centres across the State, only 520 are filled while as 1733 posts are lying vacant. Likewise, against 1250 sanctioned posts of Nursing Staff for Primary Health Centres and Community Health Centres, 902 are filled and 348 are lying vacant.
As per the IPHS guidelines, a Sub-Centre is established to cater 300 population in hilly areas and 500 in plain areas. Similarly, a PHC should cater 25000 population in hilly areas and 40,000 in plain areas. A Community Health Centre in hilly area caters to population of 80,000 and one lakh in plain areas.
"In this way, how much population is deprived of services of specialist doctors due to 139 vacant posts in Community Health Centres in different parts of the State can be easily gauged", social activist Raj Kumar said.
"Due to shortage of specialist doctors in the Community Health Centres, the load of patients is continuously increasing on the already burdened District Hospitals as people are compelled to visit district headquarters to avail the services of specialist doctors, which otherwise should have been provided at their doorsteps", he said.
Even the patients are being put to grave inconvenience of travelling huge distance to reach District Hospitals.
Sources further said that as per statistics specialist doctors have not developed the habit of serving in rural areas. "Reluctance on the part of specialist doctors to perform in rural areas cannot be considered less than playing with the lives of the people and depriving them of their fundamental right", Kumar said, adding that instead of taking stern action against such delinquent doctors the policy planners in the Health Department prefer to watch the situation as mute spectator.
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