BHUBANESWAR: BJP candidate from Berhampur Lok Sabha constituency Pradeep Panigrahy, who on Sunday got here down on Odisha authorities over deteriorating well being providers within the state.
Highlighting the achievements of the Narendra Modi authorities in well being sector and failure of BJD authorities, Panigrahy mentioned rural and poor sufferers of the state are pressured to go to personal hospitals as a consequence of acute scarcity of medical doctors and different paramedical workers in authorities healthcare amenities.
Even after 24 years in energy, the BJD authorities has not been capable of enhance infrastructure of presidency hospitals in rural areas and refill vacant posts of medical doctors and nurses, he instructed mediapersons on the state occasion workplace right here.
“Towards requirement of 47,000 medical doctors, solely 27,000 are in place. Round 17,385 out of 28,285 nursing posts are mendacity vacant. Of the three,490 pharmacist posts, 998 are vacant,” he mentioned. Equally, numerous laboratory technicians and radiologist posts are additionally mendacity vacant.
The state authorities had promised to transform three authorities medical schools and hospitals into world-class establishments in 2019.
Nothing has occurred to this point even because the prime minister has given precedence to well being sector within the nation and even prolonged assist to different nations through the Covid-19 pandemic, he mentioned.
