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HC issues notice to AIIMS on shortage of doctors

The Delhi high court on Friday sought a reply from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on the allegation that it has not been filling up vacant posts of assistant professors since 1994 thus causing shortage of doctors in the premier health care institute of the country.

Issuing notice to the AIIMS, on a petition by United Communist Party of India, a division bench comprising Justice Anil Dev Singh and Justice M K Sharma directed the institute to submit its reply by December four.

UCPI counsel Sugariva Dubey said health care services in the institute were affected due to shortage of doctors as no regular appointments were made since 1994. The AIIMS administration had been recruiting doctors on an ad hoc basis since 1994, the petition said and alleged that the ad hoc system of appointment was hampering the quality of the services.

Since several posts of assistant professors were lying vacant, patients admitted to the hospital, out patient departments, operation theatres and some research projects were adversely affected, UCPI claimed.

Quoting from the 1996-97 annual report of AIIMS, the petition said that the number of indoor and outdoor patients in the institute had increased many fold in the past several years.

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