Shortage of doctors hitting Gujrat hard: CAG report
Ahmedabad: Shortage of beds, doctors and distribution of sub-standard medicines at government hospitals ails the public health care system in Gujarat, according to a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).
As many as 29 to 77 per cent posts of specialist doctors are lying vacant across 34 district hospitals (DHs) in the state, noted the CAG report which was tabled in Gujarat Assembly yesterday.
The situation is worst in Surendranagar, Godhra, Petlad and Vadodara which are facing over 60 per cent shortage of specialist doctors by the standards of Indian Public Health (IPH).
"Similarly, vacancies in the cadres of medical officers ranged between 7 and 69 per cent, staff nurses ranged between 7 and 72 per cent and para-medical and other staff ranged between 31 to 89 per cent," stated the report.
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