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Hyderabad , Oct. 16

WANTED: Doctors to work in rural areas in Andhra Pradesh! Despite the State Government's painstaking efforts to attract young doctors to fill up vacancies in rural areas, there are too many vacancies.

According to Mr K. Rosaiah, Minister for Health and Finance, the Government is finding it very difficult to fill up the 1,000 vacancies in rural hospitals across the State. These included 100 in tribal areas. "We have decided to recruit them on regular rolls after receiving complaints that doctors are not willing to take up contract assignments," Mr Rosaiah said, addressing at the inaugural of three-day World Sight Day celebrations here on Thursday.

"Even then we are not getting any doctors. They did apply. But we are not finding them at counselling. Some have even torn the appointment letters. Some others joined but quit within no time," he said.

In a presentation, Dr I.V. Subba Rao, Principal Secretary (Health, Govt of AP), said the Government had set up eye care centres in 20 PHCs (Primary Health Centres) in three districts as a pilot project. "Fifty such centres would come up by December 2006," he said.

Four dedicated care centres would be set up exclusively to focus on children.

Medical colleges would be asked to take up diabetic retinopathy as a special focus, keeping in mind the increasing incidence.

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