PANAJI
Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Bambolim, has embarked on a hiring spree to soon get on its roster 60 doctors as "junior residents" to beat the staff crunch at the top tertiary healthcare giver.
The move advertised on Thursday comes days after a scathing observation in the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report tabled in the Goa legislative assembly that the State's premier public health institution was short of staff to the extent of a whopping 51 per cent.
The advertisement issued by GMCH's Director (Admin) Nathine Araujo, on Thursday calls for applications from those holding an MBBS degree for 60 such one-year duration posts of 'Junior Resident'. Each will be paid a consolidated monthly package of Rs 60,000 per-month.
Six of these posts each are in the field of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery (CVTS), Urology, Neurosurgery and Pediatrics Surgery. Another four departments -- Plastic Surgery and Burns, Nephrology, Neurology and Endocrinology -- will get five junior residents each through this round of contract recruitment.
The Medical Oncology department will get three and Cardiology two junior residents, according to the break-up provided in the advertisement.
Interviews for the posts will be held on Independence eve (August 14) at 3 pm in the conference hall adjoining the Dean's office, it said, adding that aspirants will have to report at 9 am the same day for document verification.
In its report for the year 2022-23 on the performance audit of Public Health infrastructure and management of health services in the State, the CAG had noted "severe shortages" of doctors, nurses and paramedics in public hospitals.
Even the State's premier health institution -- the Goa Medical College and Hospital -- has only half its strength, the CAG report pointed out, saying it had a shortfall of nearly 51 per cent of doctors and medical officers.
