According to the Health Ministry, 4,186 permanent positions would be created this year which will involve 3,586 medical officers, 300 dental officers and 300 pharmacy officers. This will be part of 8,686 permanent positions created by the ministry from June this year until 2025.
The ministry said appointments for these additional permanent positions will begin in June this year and advertisements for these posts would be made public from next month.
Prior to this, only 789 of the 23,077 contract doctors had been given permanent positions in the Health Ministry between 2016 and 2021, an average of about 160 a year.
For the period between 2023 and 2025, the ministry said the government would create at least 1,500 permanent positions annually for medical officers, dental officers and pharmacy officers.
For the health ministry, the Cabinet also agreed to create 800 permanent positions for medical specialists and 70 dental specialists each year beginning 2023 so as to accommodate increasing permanent specialists at its facilities
With this new decision, the ministry said, at least 8,686 additional permanent positions involving medical officers, dental officers and pharmacy officers will be created during 2022 till 2025.
There would also be an additional 800 permanent appointments for medical officers and 70 for dental officers every year in order to fill up vacancies left by previous officers who were appointed as medical specialists.
-HR HUB
