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The Assam Congress has flagged a bid by the State’s Bharatiya Janata Party led authorities to derail wellness services successful agrarian areas.
Doctors associated with the enactment said the destiny of 122 doctors and immoderate 22,000 wellness assemblage employees hangs successful the equilibrium pursuing a November 14 notification by the National Health Mission (NHM), which stated that their tenure volition extremity by November 30.
This, the doctors said, indicated the government’s effort to region a conception of doctors and wellness workers from agrarian areas.
“This abrupt decision, stripping astir 22,000 wellness workers of occupation security, volition deprive radical successful agrarian Assam of healthcare services,” Mridupavan Mahanta, the president of the party’s Health Service Cell, said connected Tuesday (November 25, 2025).
Criticising Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for not fulfilling his committedness successful 2018 to supply the NHM aesculapian unit connected par with the 7th Pay Commission awards, helium said the State’s aesculapian colleges endure from an acute shortage of doctors, specialists and method staff.
Assam has 12 State aesculapian colleges and an All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
“Many aesculapian colleges person been constructed successful the sanction of improving healthcare successful Assam. New buildings are being inaugurated and equipped with laboratories and machinery, yet determination is simply a terrible deficiency of specialists,” Dr. Mahanta said.
“The Chief Minister has announced plans to summation the fig of aesculapian colleges to 29, but adjacent the existing aesculapian colleges are not functioning decently owed to the shortage of doctors and nurses,” Amit Kalwar, different doctor, said.
District wellness centres person machines but nary trained technicians to run them, expanding unit connected the aesculapian colleges, Congress leaders said.
They said nonmigratory doctors tally the State’s aesculapian colleges owed to the lack of specializer doctors. “Whenever inspection teams from the Medical Council of India visit, doctors are temporarily shifted from 1 aesculapian assemblage to another,” Dr. Kalwar said.
The Congress besides underscored the suspension of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana paper services successful backstage hospitals successful Assam for a agelong time, causing immense hardship to the poor. The PMJAY is simply a authorities funded wellness security strategy providing escaped healthcare sum of up to ₹5 lakh per household per twelvemonth for secondary and tertiary attraction hospitalisation.
“Radiotherapy machines for crab patients and cardiac attraction instrumentality successful authorities hospitals often stay retired of order, forcing patients successful emergencies to spell to backstage hospitals for attraction alternatively of availing escaped services. But PMJAY cards are not accepted successful the backstage hospitals,” Dr. Mahanta said.
