To meet crunch in hospitals, state to fill vacant doc posts

Nitin Jain

Tribune News Service

Ambala, November 28

The state government has decided to fill the vacant posts of doctors and paramedical staff in the state’s health institutions by hiring competent professionals on contractual basis, Health and Home Minister Anil Vij said here today.

The development assumes significance as The Tribune is running a series on the shortage of doctors and paramedical staff in the civil hospitals of the state.

Taking a serious view of the acute shortage at several places, Vij said he had ordered the Health Department to immediately fill all vacant posts in the hospitals, dispensaries and health centres in the state. “Formal orders to this effect have been issued and the recruitment process will begin in a day or two,” he disclosed.

Vij also said a high-level committee had been constituted to study the pay gap between the Haryana and Punjab police personnel. “Besides the pay disparity, the panel will also look into all other demands of the state’s police force and will submit a detailed proposal to address the genuine issues,” he revealed while stating that DGP Manoj Yadava had been asked to work out the modalities in the matter.

On the shortage of police force in the state, the Home Minister said all vacant posts in the state police would be filled soon and the recruitment process was already in progress.

He said Haryana Police would be modernised to effectively tackle the menace of drugs, trafficking and other criminal activities.

Terming ‘Operation Prahar’, which he had launched recently to fight drug abuse in the state, as the “last nail in the coffin of drug dealers”, Vij said the results of the drive would be evident soon.

Promising a sea change in the working of the police department, he said the police force and mobile forensic units would be equipped with modern equipment to improve law and order. A grievance redressal cell had been set up to handle such complaints at the headquarters, he revealed.

Vij said the “Dial 100” service had been centralised and would operate from the Panchkula headquarters.

Reiterating the state government’s stand on adopting zero-tolerance policy against corruption, he said there were some departments which needed improvement and a strategy for improving their functioning was being made.

“I will not tolerate laxity on anyone’s part,” Vij asserted.