Friday, 16 December 2022 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The State government has terminated the services of 61 medical officers in the health services for absconding from their duties. These doctors were posted in different hospitals and health centres and were missing from their place of appointment for a large period of time. On the orders of the senior officers of the medical health and family welfare department, the chief medical officers (CMO) of the different districts had issued notices to these doctors in the local newspapers to report immediately to their places of posting. However they failed to respond to the notice.
On Thursday the Additional secretary Amandeep Kaur issued termination orders of these doctors. The order also directs the director general (DG) state health services to issue notices to the absconding medical officers who had entered into a bond with the health department in the past and ask them to submit the bond amount within a week. The department has also been asked to recover the bond amount from such doctors.
The bonded medical officers are those young medicos who at the time of admission in the medical colleges enter into a bond with the state government that they would serve in the health department of state after completion of their education. In lieu of this bond they have to pay highly subsidised fees during the period of their stay in the medical colleges. However instead of fulfilling the condition mentioned in the bond many medicos become absconding.
