{"id":53841,"date":"2025-12-09T07:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/?p=53841"},"modified":"2025-12-09T07:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:04:30","slug":"odisha-grapples-with-60-doctor-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/odisha-grapples-with-60-doctor-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha Grapples with 60% Doctor Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar: Odisha is reeling under an acute shortage of doctors, with nearly 60% of sanctioned posts remaining vacant, severely impacting healthcare delivery, especially in rural and tribal areas.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to a question in the State Assembly, Health and Family Welfare Minister Mukesh Mahaling revealed that out of 15,774 sanctioned doctor posts, a staggering 9,503 are lying vacant.<\/p>\n<p>At present, only 6,271 doctors are in service across government health facilities; of these, 5,003 are regular employees while 1,135 are working on contractual basis.<\/p>\n<p>The minister informed the House that the government has already requested the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) to initiate recruitment for 5,248 vacant posts on an urgent basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar: Odisha is reeling under an acute shortage of doctors, with nearly 60% of sanctioned posts remaining vacant, severely impacting healthcare delivery, especially in rural and tribal areas. Replying to a question in the State Assembly, Health and Family Welfare Minister Mukesh Mahaling revealed that out of 15,774 sanctioned doctor posts, a staggering 9,503 are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/202404053142503-psONtx.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53844,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53841\/revisions\/53844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}