*Only 30 pc Super Specialists, 70 pc faculty in place
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr1: Government Medical College and Associated Hospitals (GMC&AHs) Jammu have been acute shortage of faculty members as well as gazetted and non-gazetted staff including paramedics, nurses and IV class staff.
This was revealed today by RTI activist Balvinder Singh along with Manmohan Singh and Mahesh Kotwal while addressing a press conference here today. He informed that this disclosure has been made by the GMC authorities in a reply to the RTI application filed by him.
He said as per the reply, GMC&AHs Jammu were working with 30% shortage of faculty members and with 70% shortage of super specialists as on 16-02-2021 against the notified bed capacity of 900 beds in GMC, which is the only tertiary care hospital of Jammu. He said the most surprising part is that presently GMC is managing 1100 beds against 900 notified beds with 30% shortage of faculty members.
Giving more details, Balvinder Singh said there were only 233 faculty members in GMC Jammu against the sanctioned strength of 369 as on 8-02-2021 and the worst hit departments are Medicine (13 posts vacant), Anesthesiology (6 posts vacant), Obsts & Gynae (27 posts vacant), Microbiology (10 posts vacant), Orthopedics (3 posts vacant), Paediatrics (10 posts vacant), Pathology (9 posts vacant), Radio Diagnosis (15 posts vacant) and Surgery (8 posts vacant).
“Against the sanctioned strength of 59 Super Specialists, only 19 are in position with shortage of 40. There is only 1 Super Specialist in position against the sanctioned strength of 4 in Surgical Gastroenter-ology, only 1 against the sanctioned strength of 4 in Plastic Surgery and surprisingly there is no Super Specialists in Surgical Oncology, Nephrology, Clinical Hematology & Medical Gastroenterology against the sanctioned strength of 4 in each Speciality,” Singh said, adding, there is only one doctor in Endocrinology and Medical Oncology against the sanctioned strength of 4 in both.
The RTI activist further disclosed that there is also shortage of 203 Non Gazetted Superior Non-Plan and NRS staff against the sanctioned strength of 512 in GMC. He said there are only 22 Gazetted staff presently working in GMC against the sanctioned strength of 42 while there is shortage of 15 Non Gazetted (Ministerial Staff) against the sanctioned strength of 35. Further, there are 136 posts of Nursing Staff are lying vacant against the sanctioned strength of 532, 73 posts of paramedics lying vacant against sanctioned strength of 220 and there is also shortage of 147 Class IV employees against the sanctioned strength of 596 posts.
The situation of Non Gazetted staff in Associated Hospitals is also not good, he said, adding, in Chest Diseases Hospital, there are 72 Non Gazetted staff in position against the sanctioned strength of 133 and 87 Class IV employees against the sanctioned strength of 151.
“Similar is the case with SMGS Hospital where there is shortage of 86 paramedics against the sanctioned strength of 168, 96 Nursing staff against the sanctioned strength of 374, 165 Class IV employees against the sanctioned strength of 334 and 31 Ministerial staff in against the sanctioned strength of 54,” the RTI activist said.
He further informed that in Super Specialty Hospital Jammu, there is shortage of 158 posts of Non-Gazetted staff against the sanctioned strength of 487.
Singh urged upon the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to immediately fill these vacant posts to strengthen the health services of Jammu so that confidence of the public on the working of GMC&AHs Jammu be restored.
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