Uttarakhand: Govt finally terminates 52 doctors who had resigned for private practice, to begin fresh recruitnments
With the removal of these 52 doctors, decks have been cleared for recruitment of new doctors
Dehradun: The Uttarakhand State Health Department has officially terminated the services of 52 government doctors most of whom had resigned from their duties and stopped serving without administration's approval on their resignation letters.
In place of them, new doctors will now be recruited by the government.
In Uttarakhand, healthcare services have been derailed since the formation of the state. The main reason for this is evidently the shortage of doctors.
In such a situation, when the government observed the absence of doctors lately; it was revealed that there are many doctors who are present as per the documents, but they have not served in the hospitals for a long time. After a thorough search, it was further discovered that many of these doctors had submitted resignation letters but they had not waited for the government's approval on the same.
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