MBMC faces shortage of medicos

The Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation’s (MBMC) plans to enhance existing healthcare infrastructure and to create new facilities aimed at mounting a renewed battle against the pandemic in the twin-city faces a major challenge of tackling an acute shortage of manpower to treat coronavirus patients.

To get additional medical manpower for its upcoming institutional quarantine cells, dedicated Covid health centres (DCHC), Covid care centres (CCC) and dedicated Covid hospitals (DCH), the civic administration had embarked on a drive to hire nearly 819 medicos including physicians anaesthetist, medical officers, attendant’s, pharmacist, technicians for x-ray, electrocardiogram and laboratory on a temporary basis. Fortunately, for the MBMC which is struggling to cope up with an alarming surge in the number of Covid patients, received hundreds of applications from aspirants for the temporary medical postings.

After conducting walk-in interviews, the MBMC shortlisted 245 aspirants, while putting 36 others on the waiting list. However, the relief turned into disappointment after a large number of selected aspirants failed to actually turn up for the job.

“We are increasing bed capacity by upgrading our healthcare infrastructure to tackle any type of medical emergencies amid the pandemic. While efforts were on to recruit medicos on a contractual basis via walk-in interviews and other employment provision modes, private doctors are also being roped in for the job,” said deputy civic chief Sambhaji Waghmare.