Missing from duty: More than 250 doctors to get UP govt show cause notices
The Health Department has recently issued a show-cause notice to the doctors. In case the doctors fail to furnish a reply to the notice, they will be dismissed from services and the posts will then be declared vacant.
Lucknow: A whooping 280 doctors who joined Provincial Medical Health Services (PMHS) and were posted in various districts of Uttar Pradesh, are going to issued a show-cause notice by the state Health Department after it was found that these medical practitioners were 'missing' from duty.
Confirmation to this effect has been given by Devesh Chaturvedi, Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare. These missing doctors were posted in various community health centres, primary health centres, and district hospitals across the stte after joining PMHS.
However, among these, only a handful of them joined duty at the government hospitals while others did not turn up after receiving their appointment letter.
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