Delhi L-G nod for recruiting over 1,400 healthcare staff on an outsourced basis

The court had also raised the issue of shortage of manpower.

In response, Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj said the government has been raising the issue with the L-G for more than a year and a half. “We are very thankful to the High Court as well as the Dr Sarin Committee for bringing forth these issues that have been continuously flagged by the elected government but the L-G had been ignoring them,” he said.

Several letters were written to Saxena because recruitment of doctors and paramedical staff is a reserved subject that can be done only by the L-G, he claimed. “However, until the time the directions were given by the High Court, the L-G had been saying that doctors and paramedical staff cannot be recruited on contract and the L-G office used to maintain that contractual staff recruitment involves corruption,” he said.