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Maha govt sacks 442 medical officers absent for over a year

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Mumbai April 17 (UNI) The Maharashtra government has issued a directive terminating the services of 442 medical officers who were found absent from duty for a year, officials said on Thursday.
An order issued by the public health department late Wednesday said, “At a time when there is a paucity of doctors at state-run medical centres, primary health centres, rural hospitals, and district hospitals, these 442 doctors were missing at the places of their appointments. Therefore the order for terminating their services has been issued.” It also said the medical officers’ absence has been deemed illegal.
Sources said these doctors might have preferred private practice, but their action led to blocking the positions for over a year, which is unethical.
A final proposal for terminating the officers’ services was put up before the department on April 4. The order came on April 16, sources said.
Of the 442 sacked medical officers, 84 were attached to the Nagpur regional office, 75 to the Akola office, 26 to the Kolhapur office, 48 to the Thane office, 85 to the Latur office, 28 to the Pune office, 23 to the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar office and 66 to the Nashik regional office.
The highest number of such doctors was from the Nagpur office, which comprises comparatively backward districts of Gondia, Gadchiroli, and Chandrapur. As many as 74 doctors did not report for work in the Akola region, which includes districts with a sizeable tribal population in Yavatmal, Amravati, and Washim.
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