In view of the severe shortage of specialist doctors in the State health services, the State government has decided to raise the retirement age of these doctors from the existing 60 years to 65 years. A proposal in this regard would be brought before the State cabinet soon. This decision was taken
The Health minister Dhan Singh Rawat has directed the officers to activate village health and sanitation committees in the State. There are 16,674 such committees in 7,950 village Panchayats of the State which are largely inactive at present. Rawat has ordered the chief medical officers (CMOs) to
The Health secretary R Rajesh Kumar has stated that currently there is not a single case of Covid-19, adding that the Health department is fully prepared to deal with any situation. After new cases of Covid-19 were reported in some parts of the country, the Uttarakhand Health department is on an