UP government has come up with a plan to fill vaccancy.
Facing acute shortage of doctors in Uttar Pradesh, the Yogi Adityanath government has come out with a novel way to recruit them. The state government has given doctors willing to work in rural areas an option to quote their base salary package for selection. It is similar to how players fix their base price during IPL auction.
Unlike in IPL bidding wherein the owners quote the highest price for buying players in their teams, the Yogi Adityanath government has given the choice to doctors to decide their base salary package in accordance to the choice of the area they want to work in and government policies.
Significantly, the novel experiment is being initiated from Gorakhpur, the hometown of the Chief Minister, which was in news last year for the death of infants at the BRD Medical College after the supplier had disrupted the oxygen supply. Eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bundelkhand regions are the main areas which are facing acute shortage of doctors in hospitals.
At present, there is a shortage of over 7,000 doctors in the state. The State government has taken the cue from a similar initiative by the Karnataka government which recruits doctors by package linked to their postings.
Sharing details of the State government’s unique initiative with the media, the Principal Secretary Medical Health and Family Welfare Prashant Trivedi said that the government is also fixing a base price for rural postings of doctors according to their regions.
“But the choice would be given to doctors to quote their base salary package. The same would be compared with our quotes and policies of the state government to finalise their package and place of postings,” pointed Trivedi.
He, however, added that the new initiative is currently being taken in recruitment of doctors under the National Health Mission (NHM). “Once we succeed, the same could be extended in state government recruitments of doctors,” he said.
Under the new recruitment plan, the state government will hold an online bidding for postings of doctors in all government hospitals, PHCs and CHCs. “We will compare their quote with ours under the state policy to make the final selection of candidates,” said Trivedi.
The senior IAS officer said that the new initiative would help in encouraging doctors to take up rural postings where maximum vacancies exist as no one wants to go there on the salaries hitherto offered. “The extra financial incentive and monetary gains should motivate doctors to take up the challenging job of serving the rural masses who have to rush to district hospitals in case of medical emergencies,” said he.
After assuming office, the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath too had urged those passing MBBS to serve in state’s rural areas for at least two years. He had also increased the retirement age of serving doctors from 60 to 62 years to cope with the shortage. The Chief Minister had also blamed the previous governments for not filling up existing vacancies.
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