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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Doctors reluctant to take rural postings despite big salary offers -Abantika Ghosh

Doctors reluctant to take rural postings despite big salary offers -Abantika Ghosh

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published Published on Oct 8, 2018   modified Modified on Oct 8, 2018
-The Indian Express

Jharkhand is one of the five states that had advertised a scheme under which doctors could quote their own salaries. The others are Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka.

New Delhi:
Plagued by shortage of specialists in community health centres in rural areas, states have granted huge salary hikes to paediatricians, surgeons and gynaecologists posted in rural areas — in states such as Jharkhand and Tripura, these specialists can earn anything between Rs 3 lakh and Rs 3.5 lakh per month. Even then, many are reluctant to join.

Jharkhand, in fact, is one of five states that had advertised a scheme under which doctors could quote their own salaries. The others are Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka. The highest quoted was in Jharkhand where a senior person could earn upto Rs 3 lakh, followed by Chhattisgarh at Rs 2.47 lakh per month. In both MP and Karnataka, depending on seniority, the salary quoted was up to Rs 2 lakh. Salaries are higher for postings in states and Union Territories that are small and remote. Tripura is paying specialists at CHCs upto Rs 3 lakh. In Andaman and Nicobar, the maximum salary is Rs 2.5 lakh and in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, it is 2.25 lakh. The salaries in these states ranged from Rs 40,000 to Rs 1 lakh before the decision was taken to pay salaries at rates comparable to market rates.

In Bihar, specialists are now being paid Rs 50,000-1,00,000 depending on seniority, in Odisha they are paid Rs 83,000-93,000, in Himachal Pradesh Rs 40,000 to 73,750, in Andhra Pradesh Rs 52,500 to Rs 1,52,250 and between Rs 55,125 and Rs 1,75,000 in Gujarat. In Tripura, specialists’ salaries range from Rs 75,000-Rs 3.5 lakh.

Manoj Jhalani, Additional Secretary and Mission Director of the National Health Mission, said, “We want to avert all preventable deaths and disease. Specialists add enormous value to the health system. We are prepared to pay what it takes to get them to save precious lives.”

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The Indian Express, 8 October, 2018, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/doctors-reluctant-to-take-rural-postings-despite-big-salary-offers-5391124/


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