Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 3: The axe will fall on 130 doctors who have failed to join their duties in far-flung and backward areas of the State after their appointment as State Government today warned their termination in case they failed to join their duties up to Monday.
Minister of Health and Medical Education, Taj Mohi-ud-Din told Excelsior that Government has taken serious note of it and if these doctors failed to join their duties up to Monday their services will be terminated.
These doctors are on probation and they should join their duties as there is dearth of doctors in backward and remote areas, he added.
He said the Government will not show any leniency to them in case they fail to join their duties within days as already they have availed a lot of time.
The Minister said “ see we are short of doctors in far-flung and remote areas of the State and in case they fail to join their duties by Monday we have decided to terminate the services of 130 doctors”.
He said over 250 doctors have failed to join their services but out of them 120 have joined during recent days while 130 have refused to join.
It may be recalled that recently Government through Public Service Commission (PSC) recruited 700 doctors in the State and posted them in different areas to overcome the shortage of doctors in hospitals and dispensaries. Out of them 130 doctors who were posted in backward and far-flung areas have failed to join their duties till date and the Government now has decided to terminate their services.
Quoting rules the Minister said that as per rules the doctors are duty bound to serve in rural and remote areas for the first seven years of their tenure and it has happened for the first time that 130 doctors have refused to join their duties and serve in remote areas which will not be tolerated.
Accepting the shortage of doctors in hospitals and other institutions in the State, the Minister said that he will not hesitate to say that there is shortage of doctors. The Government is concerned and conscious about the situation. But our problem is that the new generation is not willing to serve in remote areas and instead prefer to give up their job to go outside the State, he added.
He said the Government is also looking into the problem that why the doctors are not willing to go to villages and remote areas.
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