Posts for 1,277 staff nurses in health centres not created: CAG report

Among proposed items that were not implemented include a 300-bed maternity child health block at Sir T hospital at Bhavnagar (budgetary provision of Rs 10 crore) and a similar block at GG hospital at Jamnagar (budgetary provision of Rs 25 crore). A proposal to provide manpower to strengthen Special Newborn Care Units (SNCU) at four government hospitals at Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot and Vadodara to reduce infant mortality rate was among the items not implemented despite a provision of Rs 10 crore.

The government also failed to create a post of deputy mamlatdar (contractual) for recovery of bond money from under graduate and post graduate students in government and private medical college. The government in the budget session had told the state legislature that it has recovered Rs 139 crore in three years from doctors failing to adhere to their service bonds that require them to serve in rural areas. The government also failed to implement a proposal to provide staff for modernisation of Kidney hospital in Surat and staff for speech language pathology and audiology department for starting a sports injury centre at Government Spine Institute, Ahmedabad.