Govt Doctors seeking Voluntary retirement in alarming numbers, Orissa HC issues recommendations
While dismissing a petition filed by a Professor of Physiology seeking early retirement, the Orissa High Court recently highlighted a "troubling pattern" of doctors across the country seeking voluntary retirement in an "alarming number".
Terming it a growing public health crisis, the HC bench comprising Justice S.K. Panigrahi held that if the situation continued, it would weaken the foundation of the healthcare system, leaving the patients without access to treatment.
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