LUCKNOW: After raising doubts over the integrity of the chief medical officers (CMOs) posted in various districts, state health minister Ahmad Hasan froze appointment of over 15000 medical personnel including doctors, nurses and technicians under Ashirwad Child Health Guarantee Scheme of the National Rural Health Mission.
The decision was taken following complaints of anomalies in appointments. The minister has ordered scrutiny of the recruitment process of every district, during which period the department will not issue any appointment letter to the candidates selected so far. The move assumes importance in the light of the incident in Gonda district where the CMO was allegedly abducted and harassed by minister Vinod Singh, who later resigned, when the CMO refused to appoint the candidates recommended by the minister. The latter, however, alleged large scale anomalies in the appointment process.
Earlier, during the day, when asked to react on the Gonda incident and accusations of Vinod Singh, the health minister had said "Everybody knows how CMOs work in the state. The entire NRHM scam during the previous BSP regime is testimony to the fact. I will make a big disclosure in a day or two." The statement drew flak from government doctors who said that the health minister seems to be prejudice even before the start of the inquiry.
However, after a meeting late on Saturday night, Hasan decided to freeze all the appointments. "We found that there were complaints from many districts mainly due to a faulty guideline for appointment. So we have decided to stall the process till we resolve the matter," he told reporters. Health department officers revealed that the minister has also ordered scrutiny of appointments across the state.
The appointments put on hold include that of around 8000 doctors, 7365 basic health workers, 650 nurses, 350 lab technicians and 150 X-ray technicians among others. Out of over 8000 doctors, 3000 were AYUSH (ayurvedic, unani and siddha and homeopathy), around 2000 dentists and 3000 MBBS (allopathy).
These appointments were done for effective implementation of the Ashirwad Child Health Guarantee Scheme to achieve better standards of infant, child and adolescent health and check neonatal mortality. The doctors were to be appointed on contractual basis at a fix pay of Rs 24,000. Selection of the doctors was to be done by the district health society which is headed by the district magistrate. But there are complaints that norms set for selection and the reservation norms were not followed in many districts.
Earlier, after four days of dilly-dallying, the state government on Saturday evening finally ordered an inquiry into the alleged abduction of Gonda CMO. Top officials of the district were removed The inquiry will cover role of all the removed officers and the allegations of irregularities against the CMO in appointment of doctors on contract basis.
The officers who were given marching orders include Gonda district magistrate Abhay, superintendent of police Kripa Shankar, chief development officer Arvind Kumar Singh and the victim CMO, Dr S P Singh. While Roshan Jacob has been posted as the new district magistrate, Navneet Rana would be the new district police chief and Munni Lal Pandey will be the new CDO.
The charge of the CMO has been handed over to his deputy Dr A K Srivastava. Commissioner, Lucknow division, Sanjeev Mittal, has been asked to probe the matter and submit the report in seven days. The removed officers have been kept in waiting till the inquiry gets over.
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