Jaipur: Health department Monday issued appointment and posting orders to 1,699 newly selected medical officers. The recruitment was pending since 2024.
Health minister Gajendra Khimsar said the department is recruiting staff in mission mode to address the shortage in medical institutions.
In the past one-and-a-half year, he claimed, 24,000 appointments were made in gazetted and non-gazetted categories, and recruitment for about 26,000 positions is under process.
The 1,699 medical officers were appointed to various medical institutions through the Rajasthan University of Health Sciences. Principal secretary (health) Gayatri Rathore said the medical officers have been appointed in district hospitals, sub-district hospitals, community health centres, and primary health centres across the state.
Director (public health) Dr Ravi Prakash Sharma said all the medical officers have been posted transparently according to their preferences through the designated portal. Care was taken in the postings to ensure that vacant positions for doctors are filled evenly across all areas, he said.
The newly appointed doctors must assume their duties by Aug 26, otherwise the appointment orders will be considered automatically cancelled, Dr Sharma said. Doctors will have to download a copy of the appointment order from the Raj Health Portal.
