Shortage of doctors in Uttarakhand: minister

[Uttrakhand Aandolankari]

Shortage of doctors in Uttarakhand: minister
PTI | 09:03 PM,Mar 28,2011
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Dehra Dun, Mar 28 (PTI) The Uttarakhand government today admitted that
there was shortage of doctors in the state, in spite of setting up six
trauma centres over the past two years. Replying to a question by
Mayukh Mahar (Cong) in the State Assembly, Parliamentary Affairs
Minister Prakash Pant said out of the six, two trauma centres at
Gopeshwar and Almora could not be made operational for some reason and
government would make efforts to start work in the centres as soon as
possible. The trauma centres at Pithoragarh, Uttarkashi and Lohaghaat
were also at different stages of construction, the minister said. Pant
said the required number of doctors were not posted in the trauma
centres due to their shortage in the state. Every trauma centre
requires six doctors but only eight doctors were available in all the
four operational centres in the state, he added. Pant said government
would start getting doctors for hospitals from medical colleges from
this year and it would help in ending the shortage of doctors.