The parliament was informed last week that over 7,000 posts are lying vacant for doctors in rural areas across the country since last year.

PHCs and community health centres (CHC) are the pulse of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), the seven-year-old flagship programme launched to provide accessible healthcare in rural and remote areas.
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"There are 3,880 positions vacant for specialists in CHCs," Bandopadhay added in his reply.
In diagnostics, there were 3,525 vacancies for lab technicians.
Source-IANS