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| Guv for establishing policy to tackle faculty shortage in Med Colleges | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 13: Asking recruiting agencies to prioritize selections for all pending vacancies in Health & Medical Education Department, Governor N N Vohra today called for drawing a policy framework to overcome the acute and recurring human resource shortage in this critical sector. "The Public Service Commission (PSC) should expedite the recruitment for the posts of Medical Officers and Faculty Positions for New Medical Colleges and ensure completion of the same before end November 2018, if not earlier" Governor observed at a high-level meeting convened here this afternoon to take a holistic review of the human resource position in the State's Health and Medical Education sector.
Taking serious note of the chronic shortage of faculty in the Medical Colleges and Super-specialty Hospitals, Governor called for working out policy interventions to deal with this important issue. He asked Chief Secretary to bring up a comprehensive policy framework in this regard.
Responding to Chairman JKPSC's difficulty regarding the lack of adequate manpower in the Commission, Governor asked Chief Secretary to urgently post the required personal to ensure time bound selections.
Regarding the filling up of para-medical vacancies in the New Medical Colleges, Chairman SSB was asked to urgently reconcile 1895 referred vacancies with the Finance Department so that the selection process is started on immediate basis.
Governor called for putting all the requisite infrastructure and human resource in place for the new Medical Colleges, coming up at Anantnag, Baramulla, Doda, Kathua and Rajouri well before the MCI's visit. Regarding the vacancies in the Government Medical Colleges and Super-Specialty Hospitals, the meeting was informed that JKPSC needs to urgently complete the selection process of the already referred 158 posts of lecturers of GMCs /SSHs to make the Super Specialty Hospitals fully functional and to fill the posts of Lecturers in the GMCs to meet the norms laid down by Medical Council of India.
The meeting was informed to meet the deficiency of doctors in the State, Health & Medical Education Department is in the process of referring around 1200 posts of Medical Officers, in addition to 99 posts of Consultants already referred to JKPSC, for recruitment.
In respect of Indian System of Medicine, the meeting was informed that 115 posts of Medical Officers including 60 in Ayurveda; 39 in Unani and 16 in Homoeopathy stand referred to JKPSC for recruitment.
About non-gazetted vacancies in the Health Department, the meeting was informed that 484 posts-262 vacancies from Directorate of Health Services Kashmir and 222 from Directorate of Health services Jammu- have been referred to the SSB for recruitment.
Similarly, the SSB needs to expedite the selection of 645 posts of the GMCs and SSHs already referred.
The meeting was briefed that to cater to the patient care effectively, creation proposals of H&ME Department involving 1622 posts with an annual financial implication of Rs 4656.96 lakh are pending with the Finance Department. |
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