SHILLONG: An RTI has revealed a serious shortage of manpower at NEIGRIHMS with more than 207 vacancies in different positions in the teaching and non-teaching departments lying vacant since 2005
Kynjaimon Amse, an advocate from Umkiang village in East Jaintia Hills, filed an RTI which revealed that there are 16 vacant posts in the teaching department.
The RTI showed a total number of 10 vacancies for the position of Associate Professor in the Blood Bank, General Medicine, General Surgery, Hospital administration, Medical Oncology, Nephrology, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Surgical Oncology departments and 17 vacancies for the position of Assistant Professor in different departments of the hospital.
The RTI also showed 21 vacancies in the Group-A non-teaching staff category which includes the posts of Medical Officer-cum lecturer, Epidemiologist cum lecturer, statistician cum lecturer, system analyst, Chief Dietician & Nutrition Officer, Chief Physiotherapist, Deputy Registrar, Programmer, Deputy Financial Adviser, Prof. cum Principal (Nursing college), Professor cum vice Principal (Nursing college), Registrar, Deputy Medical Superintendent, Dental Officer, Sr. Statistical Officer, Jr. Medical Officer, Statistical officer and Medical Physicist.
34 vacancies in the Group B category includes the posts of Assistant Accounts officer, Staff Nurse, Radiation Supervisor, Estate Manager, Office Superintendent, CSSD Supervisor, Junior Accounts Officer, Warden, Health Inspector, Health Educator, Junior Perfusionist and Radiographer and another 108 vacancies remain unfilled in the Group C category. Speaking on the matter, Amse said many patients return home due to unavailability of doctors and are forced to return again due to the limited number of doctors present at a time.
“Also even for surgery purposes, there is a long queue and a patient has to wait for many weeks before his turn come for surgery as there are limited numbers of surgeons,” he added.
According to Amse, the hospital has resorted to appointment of adhoc /contractual employees instead of filling up the vacant posts.
“The RTI reply shows that 11 Assistant Professors are presently being engaged by NEIGRIHMS and 1 professor. Besides these, NEIGRIHMS has also outsourced many of its service to private entities. The total number of contractual employee is at 51 in different departments,” he said.
Amse has called upon the NEIGRIHMS administration to immediately take action in this regard for the welfare of the patients, students and the people of the NE region.
