29% of posts lying vacant in health & family welfare department | India News

A supply mentioned filling up vacancies is a steady course of and efforts are made to fill all posts in time by means of recruiting businesses.

NEW DELHI: The department of health and family welfare of the Union health ministry, which formulates and implements central health schemes, is reeling underneath employees scarcity.
According to a latest parliamentary standing committee report, the department has 1,486 sanctioned positions throughout teams A, B and C. Of them, 428 (29%) positions are lying vacant.
While Group A, which incorporates gazetted officers who’re answerable for coverage making, administration and planning, has a 16% emptiness, Group B and C that embody mid-level positions and operational employees have 27% and 39% vacancies respectively, based on the report.
“…there has been negligible improvement in filling up the vacant posts from 2023-24 when a total of 454 posts were reported to be vacant,” the parliamentary standing committee on health and family welfare, chaired by Samajwadi Party MP Ram Gopal Yadav, acknowledged in its report and really helpful health ministry to take up the matter of vacancies with the cadre controlling authorities and recruiting businesses.

The ministry has two departments – department of health and family welfare, and department of health analysis. A supply in the ministry mentioned filling up vacancies is a steady course of, and efforts are made to fill all of the vacancies in time by means of recruiting businesses like UPSC and SSC.
“The ministry regularly takes up the matter with respective cadre controlling authorities (DoPT, etc) and recruiting agencies (UPSC & SSC) to fill vacant posts. Govt has also started mission recruitment to fill up the vacancies in a time-bound manner,” mentioned the supply.
There is an rising integration of expertise in health sector. In this context, the parliamentary committee has really helpful, it’s essential for the workforce overseeing nationwide health initiatives to actively have interaction with technological developments. “…the committee recommends that ministry of health and family welfare expand the use of technology and implement measures to strengthen the digital proficiency of its officials and staff,” the report states.
It has additionally raised the problem of employees scarcity at AIIMS, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, JIPMER Puducherry and CGHS dispensaries and reiterated the necessity to rent extra employees for environment friendly functioning of health techniques.