Staff crunch hits patient care at Rohtak's PGIMS

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, September 16

An acute shortage of staff, including doctors, nurses and faculty members, is adversely affecting the functioning of the Rohtak PGIMS. As per official data, a total of 202 posts of senior resident doctor at the PGIMS are lying vacant, severely hitting patient care at the institute.

Healthcare infrastructure crumbling

The healthcare infrastructure in Haryana is crumbling due to the acute shortage of trained medical staff. We have been raising the voice of the residents for a long time now, but the state authorities have paid no heed to our demand . Dr RS Dahiya, former professor of surgery at PGIMS

UHC rendered without Vice Chancellor

• Pt Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences (UHS), Rohtak, has been left without a head of the institute since the retirement of Prof OP Kalra from the post of VC
• Though Dr Anita Saxena of AIIMS has been appointed the new Vice Chancellor, she has not joined the institute and is unlikely to join for at least another two to three months
• As of now, IAS officer Dr G Anupama has been given the additional charge of UHS Vice Chancellor

Also, of the 291 sanctioned posts of senior resident doctor, only 89 are filled as of now.

Similarly, 140 posts of PGIMS faculty members (teachers), including Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor, are also lying vacant. Of the 410 sanctioned posts of teachers, only 270 are filled.

The data further reveals that of the 85 sanctioned posts of Senior Professor at PGIMS, 60 are filled while 25 are vacant. Likewise, of the 68 sanctioned posts of demonstrator, 34 are filled while the same number of posts is lying vacant.

Of the 42 sanctioned posts of teaching staff at the College of Nursing, only 16 are filled while 26 are lying vacant. As many as 36 miscellaneous Group-B posts of the 83 sanctioned posts are also lying vacant.

Dr RS Dahiya, a former professor of surgery at PGIMS, has demanded that vacant posts of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers at the PGIMS be filled forthwith.

“The healthcare infrastructure in Haryana is crumbling due to the acute shortage of trained medical staff. We have been raising the voice of the residents for a long time now, but the state authorities have paid no heed to our demand,” said Dr Dahiya.

When contacted, PGIMS director Dr Rohtash Yadav stated that the process for the recruitment of senior resident doctors and demonstrators was underway, adding that other vacant posts would also be filled as soon as possible.