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Friday, Apr 29, 2005

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Health dept. to take staff on contract

Bindu Shajan Perappadan

NEW DELHI: Faced with an acute shortage of staff in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi-run health centres, the Health Department has for the first time decided to tread on a never before chosen path.

Orders are out allowing the Department to take staff on a contract basis, something that has not been resorted to before. Staff at all levels including doctors, nurses and class four employees would be taken on contract to help ease the tight spot that the Department is finding itself in now.

The latest move, however, is not aimed at covering the vacant posts that exist in the various departments and the medical centres, but to facilitate the smooth functioning of the 60 new health facilities that the MCD has added to its list this year.

After a blanket clamp on recruitment by the Government, the MCD officials claim that they were faced with shortage at several health centres across the Capital.

"Now with the new facilities available to the public, we found that we did not have enough manpower to look after these centres. Some centres have staff drawn from other centres on diverted capacity. This has also created shortage at both places as the employee is not able to dedicate itself to any single centre. Staff on contract basis is essential in order to efficiently run the centres or to start new ones. The contract staff would be recruited through a walk-in interview through advertisement and would be taken in for a period of one year on a renewable basis,'' said J.N.Banavaliker, Director of Hospital Administration, MCD.

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