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83 doctors face the sack for absence

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List sent to the PSC to create new vacancies

Thiruvananthapuram: Minister for Health P.K. Sreemathy announced here on Sunday that the Government had prepared a list of 83 doctors whose services were to be terminated for unauthorised absence.

Speaking after inaugurating the Doctors’ Day celebrations, she said the list had been sent to the PSC as a procedural formality to create new vacancies.

The Minister said the Government was working on a package to retain doctors in the Government Health and Medical Education services. A non-practising allowance was one of the proposals under consideration, she said.

As many as 200 post-graduate doctors would have to undergo compulsory service in the health or medical education sectors. Rural service would be made attractive, she added.

Ms.Sreemathy said the Government had finalised another scheme to augment the network of Government hospitals and improve their functioning. New hospitals for women and children would be opened in Kasaragod and Thrissur this year. She said the Government was committed to rooting out corruption in the health service.

The Minister stressed the need for a coordinated approach involving Government agencies and local bodies to combat the threat posed by diseases like chikungunya.

She lauded the role played by Government doctors in managing the recent outbreak of diseases in several parts of the State.

V.Sivankutty, MLA, presided over the function. Director of Health Services T.K. Kuttamani, Director of Medical Education N.Sudayakumar, ESI director G. Padmadevi, IMA State president C.K. Chandrasekharan and councillor Silvi Mathew participated in the inaugural function.

The Minister later distributed awards to the best doctors. The recipients included V.Mohanan Nair, Principal and Director, State Health and Family Welfare Institute, Roy Abraham, professor of Psychiatry, Medical College, Thrissur, K.Ramdas, Additional Professor, Regional Cancer Centre, and his wife M.Padmaja, an ENT specialist at the ESI Hospital, Peroorkada, Iype Varghese, Principal, Dental College, Kozhikode, Thomas Mathew, Professor, Community Medicine, Medical College, Alappuzha, and N.Damodaran, District Medical Officer, Pathanamthitta.

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