Identify medical vacancies to fill, says Andhra Pradesh CM

Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has directed the health department officials to identify all openings at various hospitals in the state including of doctors, nurses and paramedical staff to fill the posts. Read here to know more.

At a review meeting of the health department, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has directed the health department officials to identify all the medical vacancies for nurses, doctors and para-medical staff from the village-level to hospitals across the state for the Medical Recruitment Board to fill them up.

Taking stock of the family doctor programme, Reddy said, “Intimate the available dates of visiting family doctors to people in advance through ASHA workers and ANMs so that villagers would be able to meet them.” Efficient district officers should supervise this programme for effective implementation, he said in a press release, as reported by The Print. 

He also instructed officials to stock sufficient supplies of medicines, besides submitting reports on existing vacancies in future meetings.

More Details of Andhra Pradesh's health department review meeting

In the meeting, officials apprised CM Reddy that 2,100 more seats were being added for medical education in addition to the 2,185 currently available in medical colleges. As many as 750 seats had already been added in the medical colleges at Vizianagaram, Rajahmundry, Eluru, Machilipatnam and Nandyala in the current year, where classes were about to commence, while another 350 seats would be made available in the 2024-25 academic year.

The remaining 1,000 seats would be made available in the next academic year at Piduguralla, Bapatla, Madanapalle, Penukonda, Palakollu, Markapuram, Narsipatnam, Amalapuram and Parvathipuram medical colleges, the officials told the CM.

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