Udupi, August 23: Minister for Health and Family Welfare Aravind Limbavali has urged the government doctors to upgrade their expertise by undergoing post-graduation courses.
Speaking after laying foundation stone for the upgradation of Government Hospital Ajjarkad, here, on Thursday he admitted that Karnataka is running short of as many as 899 experts with Post Graduate qualification. Government doctors enrolling themselves to PG courses is one of the ways to solve this problem he added.
He lamented that in spite of the lucrative salary of up to Rs 80,000 per month being offered by the government, most of the doctors were not ready join the government service.
Admiring the MBBS doctors who joined government services, he said that despite hailing from the creamy layer of the society they joined the government service just to serve the people.
He urged them to continue with their commitment without coming out to streets to press for any of their demands, which would affect the life of the patients.
Mr Limbavali promised that the government is committed to upgrade the District Hospital Udupi to a 200 bed hospital from the present 125 beds.
The minister also inaugurated the modernised Dialysis Center and the Laboratory in the hospital.
Udupi MLA K Raghupathi Bhat, District Surgeon Anand Nayak, DHO Dr Ramachandra Bairy and President of Hospital Development Committee P Rabeendra Nayak were present among others.
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