Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has decided to appoint 5,000 doctors in various health care centres. Health Minister Niranjan Pujari today informed the State Assembly.
The recruitment would be made in phased manner, the Minister said while replying to a question raised by Rairangpur MLA Naba Charan Majhi.
Majhi expressed concern of six doctors working against 37 posts at Rairangpur sub-divisional hospital. The Minister assured to appoint doctors on priority basis.
The government also decided to increase the number of beds in government healthcare facilities, the Pujari told the House while responding to MLA Mohan Majhi.
“While Union Health Ministry’s Indian Public Health Standard (IPHS) 2022 norms recommend at least one bed per 1,000 population in every district as an ‘essential’ norm, the figure in Odisha stands at 0.71. I have given in written that about 21,342 beds will be added to meet the norms. We currently have 25,000 beds, which was increased from 17,000,” he added.
