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Govt backtracks from assurances of absorbing unemployed dentists

Hundreds remain jobless despite vacant positions
3/5/2017
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report 

JAMMU, Mar 5: Backtracking on its promise made to the unemployed dentists who were on hunger strike for 45 long days in 2014 when coalition came to power, hundreds of these dentists have been abandoned jobless three years after it assumed power.
Ironically, while the army of unemployed, trained dentists is swelling in numbers, the rural masses in the state are deprived of dental care. Pertinently, as per the estimates of the Indian Dental Association, every second Indian suffers from a dental problem and association had suggested creation of jobs for dentists in the government health services. There are more than 3000 qualified and trained dentists in the State who are jobless for years.
"Since, they do not have any employment opportunity even after completing the course by spending lakhs of rupees, they are forced to migrate outside the state; while few, who have resources, have opened their private clinics, "dentists stated.
They also said that about 300 dentists pass out every year from colleges outside and within the State but they are not offered jobs despite dire need of dentists, particularly in rural areas, where people do not have access to dental healthcare services. "A dentist should be posted at the primary health centre to provide dental care to rural population but concerned authority is never serious about the dental diseases, "they added.
They further said that the posts were last advertised in 2008 and file regarding creation of dental surgeon posts is lying in Civil Secretariat for last one year (file no. HD/GAZ/Gen -25/2016) but owing to callous attitude of health ministry towards the people and jobless dentists, nothing has been done in this regard.
"There are numbers of posts still vacant in the various health institutes across Jammu and Kashmir but the State Government is not at all concerned about absorbing these qualified unemployed dentists," they informed.


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