Agriculture and Bangalore Rural District In-charge Minister Krishna Byre Gowda on Thursday said neither doctors nor medical staff are coming forward to work in government hospitals in the district.
“Despite our best efforts to engage the services of medical and paramedical staff on contract basis to provide quality medical services in the government hospitals in Bangalore Rural zilla panchayat, we are unable to do so as none of the doctors or the medical staff are coming forward to work in the hospitals in rural areas,” he told reporters after a quarterly review meeting of the Zilla Panchayat.
Gowda that the Bangalore Rural DC had invited applications and no doctor came forward to work even when they were offered (a salary package of) `50,000 per month. Many posts were lying vacant still, he noted.
Later, he said the government has requested the Union government to formulate measures to regulate the companies selling chemical pesticides as bio-pesticides.
The companies label the chemical pesticides as growth hormones and the State government do not have the power to regulate the sale of growth hormones, he added.
The minister said that the government has so far seized 25 products that were being sold as bio-pesticides and chemical traces were found in 13 products.