Interim report on infra at Delhi government hospitals points to ‘woeful shortage of staff’, HC takes note

The high court further highlighted that as per the interim report, out of 38 MRI machines, only four were available in the hospitals and that 26 out of 38 CT scan machines were non-functioning. It further orally said that the charts mentioned in the report on the availability of machines highlighted an “awful shortage”.

The bench thereafter asked the respective counsel, including those appearing for the Delhi government, the Centre and advocate Ashok Agarwal, the amicus curiae appointed in the matter, to go through the report and analyse it.

The bench said that the report highlighted a “woeful shortage of staff” and as per the recommendations, liberty can be given to the MD or whosoever is in charge of the hospital concerned to employ people on a short-term basis.

“Going through the UPSC/DSSSB (for filling vacant posts of specialists, medical officers etc.) will take time. How will you bridge the gap in the interim? It will have to be contractual (recruitment)…,” the bench orally said. One of the suggestions in the report is that autonomy must be given to respective hospitals to fill up vacant posts on an ad-hoc and contract basis.

The bench thereafter listed the matter on April 15.

The Delhi High Court appointed the six-member committee of experts in February. The order came in a 2017 suo motu plea over the alleged lack of Intensive care unit (ICU) beds and ventilators in government hospitals.

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