8,000 doctors to be recruited soon, says AP Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav

Puttapathi: Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav on Tuesday announced that the State government will soon issue a notification to recruit 8,000 doctors, in addition to informing that around 2,600 were already appointed last year.

He made the announcement while inaugurating the new Block Public Health Unit and the tehsildar office in Tadimarri mandal under the Dharmavaram Assembly constituency.

The Minister said that the government is taking strong steps to improve healthcare in rural areas. As part of this effort, 168 Block Public Health Units have been sanctioned across the State, including two for the Dharmavaram constituency alone.

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He also highlighted the government’s investment in health infrastructure, stating that 3,200 diagnostic machines, including six CT scanners, have been purchased recently. He added that cancer treatment is now being provided free of cost at the new State Cancer Centre in Kurnool.

Talking about the new tehsildar office, Satya Kumar told The Hindu, it was built at a cost of Rs 10 lakh to ensure that revenue-related services are easily available to people and their grievances can be resolved within a minimal time.

The Minister criticised the previous YSRCP government for neglecting the medical and health sector and not fulfilling the promises. He said, "The NDA government is fulfilling all the promises it made and is developing every village."

Medical Dialogues had previously reported that in a bid to address the severe shortage of healthcare professionals, the Andhra Pradesh government has decided to fill nearly 8,000 vacancies across various categories in the next few months. This move aims to improve the quality of healthcare delivery and ensure adequate staffing in hospitals across the state. The focus will primarily be on filling vacancies for specialist doctors in teaching hospitals, which have been grappling with a severe faculty shortage.

Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu issued directives to various departments, prompting them to submit detailed reports on the vacancy situation. Following this directive, the Director of Medical Education (DME), Director of Health (DH), Director of Secondary Health, Commissioner of Ayush, and Director of the National Health Mission Project (NHM) submitted detailed reports on vacancy positions in their respective wings. After analysing reports, the govt found that about 3,114 professors, associate professors, and assistant professor posts were lying vacant in different govt medical colleges across the state.

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