UP to now engage private practitioners in government Hospitals
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Lucknow: Stricken with the acute shortage of Medical practitioners in the state, the UP government ash now shown its inclination to engage private doctors in government hospitals to ensure smooth running of health services.
A recent report in HT points out that the state government has sought a well-planned proposal from the DGHS detailing the engagement of private doctors for voluntarily devoting time for treating patients at district hospitals as well as PHCs and CHCs immediately.
The initiative, adds the daily, is personally being led by the state medical and health minister Sidharth Nath Singh, who during his meetings with doctors at Lucknow, Allahabad as well as Varanasi has urged them to devote at least four hours a week to serve patients at district hospitals as well as PHCs and CHCs.
The move is designed to ensure sooth running of healthcare services, in the state which is currently suffering from a shortage of around 7,000 doctors including 1800 specialists. Estimate shows that the shortages goes as high as 41% with only 10,000 posts out of the total 17,000 posts having been filled. The shortage is even more glaring in terms of specialists, which stand at 3700 doctors only.
A recent report in HT points out that the state government has sought a well-planned proposal from the DGHS detailing the engagement of private doctors for voluntarily devoting time for treating patients at district hospitals as well as PHCs and CHCs immediately.
The initiative, adds the daily, is personally being led by the state medical and health minister Sidharth Nath Singh, who during his meetings with doctors at Lucknow, Allahabad as well as Varanasi has urged them to devote at least four hours a week to serve patients at district hospitals as well as PHCs and CHCs.
The move is designed to ensure sooth running of healthcare services, in the state which is currently suffering from a shortage of around 7,000 doctors including 1800 specialists. Estimate shows that the shortages goes as high as 41% with only 10,000 posts out of the total 17,000 posts having been filled. The shortage is even more glaring in terms of specialists, which stand at 3700 doctors only.
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