More doctors for North and East

Nadira Gunatilleke

The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry will appoint 900 post intern doctors to State hospitals today. A group of them (325) will be posted to hospitals in the North and East. These doctors can make requests for transfers after serving in the province for two years. According to the spokesman there are 81 government doctors and more than 30 nurses with other primary healthcare staff including public health midwives and PHIs serving for the IDPs.

The Ministry will add another 200 nurses for IDP care shortly. The human resources situation with patient/doctor ratio is 76.65 and patient/nurse ratio is 108.5 which is almost comparable with the national figures in the country.