Among the government departments that she gives the most importance to, health is at the top. Without leaving it to anyone else's hands, Chief Minister Mamata Bandhyopadhyay has kept the responsibility of the health ministry on her own shoulders. This time, she raised questions about why there is a delay in recruitment in that department.
From the stage of the inauguration ceremony of 110 mobile medical vans at Swasthya Bhavan on Tuesday, the Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, expressed displeasure about this and sought accountability from Health Secretary Narayanaswarup Nigam. She also asked the Health Secretary to be active so that the Health Recruitment Board shakes off the delay in recruitment and brings speed to work.
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While presenting an account of what infrastructural development has taken place in the health sector in the past 14 years, the Chief Minister spoke about massive doctor recruitment. In that context, she sought an explanation for why there is a delay in new recruitment. The Chief Minister said that she was asking Nigam why so much delay in recruitment. Earlier, there was a legal problem in court, and she accepted that. But that tangle has been resolved. Then she demanded why is there still a delay for the recruitment.
She also asked the Health Recruitment Board to speed up its work. However, according to health sources, the Health Recruitment Board published advertisements for recruitment to doctor, nurse and health worker posts about a month and a half ago.
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A source at Swasthya Bhavan claims that the health department is going to recruit not only doctors and nurses, but also various posts, including medical technologists and pharmacists. The government is going to recruit 1400 doctors, slightly more than 5 thousand nurses, 196 lab technologists, 15 CCU technologists, 8 medical technologists and 5 audiometrists.
