Trained doctors are leaving services even after paying Rs 15 lakh as bond money which shows the "deficiency" in the system says a CAG report saying attrition level of specialists is at an all-time high.
The health of medical services in the armed forces is deteriorating fast. The CAG report, tabled in Parliament on Friday, said the maximum attrition of specialists was in the fields of anesthesiology, obstetrics, medicine and gynaecology. "This explains high levels of deficiency of specialists in these disciplines," the report said.
In several hospitals, there were no specialists available. During 2007-2010, of the 508 doctors commissioned, 73 opted out of service by paying the bond money of Rs 15 lakh. The report urged the armed forces to revise the bond money upwards to arrest the exodus.
The attrition level of fresh recruits through the Armed Forces Medical Services has touched an all-time high of 24% in 2010 from 3% in 2007, a review of performance of armed forces hospitals carried out the Comptroller and Auditor General has said.
Under AFMS, there are 133 military hospitals (Army 111, Navy 10 and IAF 12) of varying sizes spread across the country in addition to 90 field hospitals.
There was an overall shortage of 12% medical officers (MO) in hospitals. Barring the tertiary care hospitals, deficiency existed in field hospitals (36%), peripheral (6%), mid-zonal (19%) and zonal hospitals (9%). Even among the command and specialist hospitals, the posted strength varied from (-) 25% in Udhampur to 93% in R&R Hospital Delhi.
The report has also raised concern about the local purchase of drugs. Between 2006-07 and 2010-11, local purchase of drugs increased significantly from Rs 158 crore to Rs 371 crore, a rise of 135%, against a marginal increase of 11% in allotment for central purchase.And the merry game goes on
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