NHRC notice to Union Health Secretary over acute shortage of doctors and other staff in premier hospitals in Delhi (08.08.2014)
PRESS RELEASE
New Delhi, 8th August, 2014
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that the Central Government has admitted that there is an acute shortage of doctors and specialists in its medical units.
223 posts of doctors, 287 posts of nurses and 692 posts of para-medical and technical staff are currently vacant in premier institutes, including All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Safdarjung Hospital, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Lady Harding Medical College and associated hospitals.
The Commission has observed that it is the duty of the Government to provide medical facilities to its citizens for a healthy life and the contents of the media report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights. It has issued a notice to the Union Health Secretary calling for an action taken report within four weeks.
According to the media report, hiring people on contract to tied over a few years does not work towards institution building. The Central Government has to think for long term.
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New Delhi, 8th August, 2014
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that the Central Government has admitted that there is an acute shortage of doctors and specialists in its medical units.
223 posts of doctors, 287 posts of nurses and 692 posts of para-medical and technical staff are currently vacant in premier institutes, including All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Safdarjung Hospital, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Lady Harding Medical College and associated hospitals.
The Commission has observed that it is the duty of the Government to provide medical facilities to its citizens for a healthy life and the contents of the media report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights. It has issued a notice to the Union Health Secretary calling for an action taken report within four weeks.
According to the media report, hiring people on contract to tied over a few years does not work towards institution building. The Central Government has to think for long term.
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