Few doctors ready to serve in rural Meghalaya: Sangma
June 8th, 2010 - 8:24 pm ICT by IANSShillong, June 8 (IANS) Medical specialists in Meghalaya would rather resign from government service than serve in rural areas, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said here Tuesday.
“The specialists are reluctant to go to rural areas and so there is this constraint before the government to run hospitals,” Sangma told legislators during question hour in the state assembly.
He also cited an example of a doctor who resigned from his post after he was posted in Tura, considered one of the most developed towns in Garo Hills.
He said finding doctors to be posted in rural areas, especially in public and community health centres, has been the biggest constraint in running government hospitals to their potential.
A large number of doctors refuse to go on transfer to remote areas in Meghalaya due to lack of infrastructure and other facilities in those areas.
Deputy Chief Minister Rowell Lyngdoh said that since the government was facing a problem, efforts were on to deploy specialists on a contractual basis.
“We are looking at various ways to overcome this constraint and one of them is appointing specialists on a contractual basis,” Lyngdoh told the assembly.
The previous government had adopted 22 health centres in rural areas on public private partnership (PPP) mode to make them functional.
- Death toll five, curfew extended in Meghalaya areas (Lead) - Jan 07, 2011
- Meghalaya defers civic polls - Jul 14, 2011
- Meghalaya to have winter capital - Jun 08, 2010
- Mukul Sangma sworn in Meghalaya chief minister - Apr 20, 2010
- Fierce gunfight after rebels attack Meghalaya police officer - Feb 28, 2012
- Garo rebels target police party, no casualties - Apr 27, 2012
- No mass graves in Garo Hills, says Sangma - Nov 17, 2011
- Five killed in Meghalaya ambush - Nov 01, 2011
- No central rule, Meghalaya leadership issue resolved: Lyngdoh - Jun 03, 2011
- NCP demands president's rule in Meghalaya - Jun 03, 2011
- Four killed in Meghalaya ethnic clash, army called in (Lead) - Jan 06, 2011
- Meghalaya takes precautionary steps after bomb threat - Jul 18, 2011
- Meghalaya chief minister condemns bomb attack - Oct 10, 2010
- Garo rebels demand withdrawal of central forces - Aug 04, 2011
- Chidambaram to review Meghalaya security situation Sunday - Feb 17, 2012
Tags: community health centres, constraint, contractual basis, deputy chief minister, doctor who, doctors, garo hills, government hospitals, government service, infrastructure, legislators, medical specialists, meghalaya, mukul, public private partnership, rowell, rural areas, shillong, state assembly