JAIPUR: To deal with shortage of doctors, the state government, on Tuesday, approved to extend the tenure of temporary junior resident doctors by additional six months. They were initially hired for only six months.
These junior resident doctors were hired during the resident doctors’ protest in March in solidarity with the private hospitals during their protest against the Right to Health (RTH) bill, which has now become an Act. When the resident doctors of all government medical colleges were on strike, the government had recruited the junior resident doctors to compensate for the absence of striking resident doctors. With 350 of these doctors hired for service in hospitals attached to government medical colleges on a salary of Rs 55,200 monthly each, their contracts were set to conclude in September, but the state government has opted to retain them for an additional six months, bolstering the medical workforce in the region, said a senior health department official. During the agitation of resident doctors in March, the government had approved 1,000 posts of junior resident doctors for the state. These junior resident doctors are helping senior doctors in medicine, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, cardiology, surgery and other such departments. The medical education department has made it clear to the junior resident doctors that if they are found involved in any strike or boycott of work, their services will immediately be cancelled without any notice. They were recruited directly as no experience certificate was required for post of junior resident. They are all young doctors who have not completed 40 years of age at time of joining. The reservation policy of the state government was applicable during their selection.
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