HYDERABAD: Expressing serious concern that promotions in medical colleges and teaching hospitals are pending for seven years, the Telangana Medical Joint Action Committee (TMJAC) has demanded that the government address the issue on priority.
Dr B. Ramesh, chairman of the JAC which comprises doctors and nurses, said, "The post of additional director for medical colleges has not been filled for seven years. Andhra Pradesh has carried out recruitments regularly but after bifurcation we are not filling up even the 30 posts that are vacant across departments."
Promotions are crucial for government doctors as they can aspire to rise on the professional ladder, said another member. Many senior doctors are upset as they have waited for more than five years for their promotions. Some of those who retired missed the bus altogether.
“The file is with the state department of health for one month. But there is no response. We do not know who is stalling our promotions and under what compulsions," a senior government associate professor said
TMJAC members met recently and resolved to pressurise the government to take up issues like promotion, clearance of salary arrears and all those pertaining to the nursing fraternity. They said that arrears of the existing healthcare workers stand at `200 crore.
TMJAC stated that recruitments to the directorate of nursing will help to deal with these problems and those of contract employment effectively. They said that at a rough estimate nearly 10,000 recruitments have to be made in different places to fill up the vacancies.
