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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