Uttarakhand: Consideration is being given to increasing the retirement age of specialist doctors, proposal will be sent to the cabinet

Shortage of doctors in government hospitals of Uttarakhand has always been a big issue. To improve the health facilities in the state, the government is working on many schemes, some of which have proved effective and the general public has benefited from them. Now the government has taken another step to overcome the shortage of specialist doctors. Under which the Health Department has decided to increase the retirement age of specialist doctors by five years. Earlier, the Health Department had recruited many specialist doctors under the You Quote We Pay scheme.

The Health Department is now going to increase the retirement limit of specialist doctors from 60 years to 65 years, and a separate cadre will also be created for specialist doctors, the proposal of which will be placed before the upcoming cabinet meeting. In fact, on Saturday, a high level meeting of the Health Department was held in the Secretariat under the chairmanship of Health Minister Dhan Singh Rawat. In this meeting, it was decided to create a separate cadre for specialist doctors and increase the retirement age.

At the same time, the minister instructed the officials to prepare its proposal and submit it to the government within the next one week, so that the cabinet can approve this proposal during the upcoming cabinet meeting. After the cabinet approves this proposal, the shortage of specialist doctors will be removed.

Not only this, it has been decided during the meeting that doctors will be deployed on the vacant posts of doctors in the health department on the fixed pay scale. Apart from this, it has also been decided to recruit doctors on some temporary posts as an alternative to MBBS doctors who have gone for PG course, the proposal for which will also be placed before the Cabinet.

At the same time, the Health Minister said that 1300 posts are vacant in the technical cadre of the Health Department, but the Cabinet had given approval to fill only 250 posts, whereas there is a need for technicians on 1300 posts across the state. Therefore, the proposal related to filling all the posts will be placed before the Cabinet, so that the vacant posts of technicians in the government hospitals of the state can be filled.

Pay scale of super specialists will increase in government medical colleges

The way has also been opened to fill 156 vacant posts of professors and associate professors in all the government medical colleges of the state. In fact, in the meeting, it has been decided to increase the minimum age limit to 62 years to fill the vacant posts, the proposal of which will be sent to the government by the Medical Education Department, which will be approved by the state government. Therefore, in future medical colleges will be able to get 53 professors and 103 associate professors. Apart from this, it has also been decided to increase the pay scale of vacant posts of super specialty departments in government medical colleges under medical education, a proposal for which will be prepared and placed in the cabinet meeting.