The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has decided to transfer 800 newly recruited BCS doctors posted in the country’s upazila health complexes to Sadar hospitals and public medical colleges very soon.
Dr Md Ehteshamul Haque Chowdhury, director of administration at the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), confirmed it to the Dhaka Tribune.
“As per the public service law, all the newly appointed doctors have to work for a mandatory two-year period in the upazila health complexes. The 800 doctors in question, though recently recruited through the 33rd Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination, joined the health sector on an ad hoc basis in 2010 and 2011 and have already fulfilled the criterion,” he said.
“We will first provide doctors to the Sadar hospitals, and then to different public medical colleges,” he said, adding that the DGHS had already sought the list of vacant posts of lecturers from the colleges.
The ministry is also going to repost 1,200-1,500 doctors to different union health and family welfare centres under the Directorate General of Family Planning, Dr Ehtesham said.
These doctors are among the 2,800-3,000 doctors who were previously appointed at the union sub-centres. Due to the lack of infrastructure in the sub-centres, these doctors left their stations, and were later advised to join the nearest upazila health complexes.
All these doctors are among the 6,000 BCS recruits who were stationed in different health facilities across the country two months ago.
“We are closely monitoring the new recruits. Most have been regular on their duties so far. There have been a few problems, but we are working on them. Hopefully they all be resolved very soon,” Dr Ehtesham told the Dhaka Tribune.
