Punjab: No provision for promotion of Rural Medical Officers in Punjab
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Patiala: With no promotion channels being defined for doctors working with the rural medical officers in Punjab, doctors in the said positions are reported to have been retiring in the same post that they had joined in.
The Punjab government in 2006, created Rural Medical Officers, RMO cadre in order to enable the presence of doctors in rural areas of the state. According to the cadre, they were to be stationed at the villages, where many of the doctors of the Punjab Civil Medical Services (PCMS) avoid joining duty. Unfortunately, in lieu of the hardships these RMO’s face in working in such rural areas, they do not get anything neither promotion nor quota in postgraduate studies. The same facility are available to sitting PCMS doctors who avail both the benefits.
The spokesperson of Rural Medical Services Association (RMSA), Dr Rajesh Kumar told HT, “We were hired in 2006 but our services regularised in 2011. We are entitled to dynamic assured career progression (DACP) at 4, 9, and 14 years of service. But five years since regularization, the benefit hasn’t come to us. After a decade, I am still an RMO, and will probably retire as this. In the PCMS cadre, a doctor becomes senior medical officer after 9 years, civil surgeon after 20, and many retire as director. What is my fault? I have the same qualifications,” .
The Punjab government in 2006, created Rural Medical Officers, RMO cadre in order to enable the presence of doctors in rural areas of the state. According to the cadre, they were to be stationed at the villages, where many of the doctors of the Punjab Civil Medical Services (PCMS) avoid joining duty. Unfortunately, in lieu of the hardships these RMO’s face in working in such rural areas, they do not get anything neither promotion nor quota in postgraduate studies. The same facility are available to sitting PCMS doctors who avail both the benefits.
The spokesperson of Rural Medical Services Association (RMSA), Dr Rajesh Kumar told HT, “We were hired in 2006 but our services regularised in 2011. We are entitled to dynamic assured career progression (DACP) at 4, 9, and 14 years of service. But five years since regularization, the benefit hasn’t come to us. After a decade, I am still an RMO, and will probably retire as this. In the PCMS cadre, a doctor becomes senior medical officer after 9 years, civil surgeon after 20, and many retire as director. What is my fault? I have the same qualifications,” .
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