Govt to give docs’ choice to pick rural posting

bdnews24.com :
The Health Minister has announced to give posting to newly recruited doctors “in rural areas” as per their choices in his latest effort to ensure availability of doctors in remote areas.
Mohammed Nasim made the announcement as the Health Ministry welcomed 6,151 doctors on Thursday in its service, in the biggest ever recruitment at a time by the Public Service Commission.
He asked them to pick their own villages to serve the people where they grew up.
“We’ll post you in the next one week,” he said at Bangabandhu International Conference Center that wore a festive look with the crowd of more than 6,000 doctors who also submitted their joining letter at their reception ceremony.
The PSC started the recruitment process in February, 2012 upon health ministry’s request to fill up vacant posts and to send doctors at rural workplaces, which is a challenge for the government.
Authorities used to threaten doctors using rhetoric to make them stay at their workplaces, but on Thursday the minister for the first time offered them choices for their positing.
Offering them incentives, he also announced that he would prioritise their higher studies and “good posting” in future if they stay at least two years at villages.
He also warned them of adverse consequences if they failed to stay in villages. He said, rural Bangladesh’s lifestyle had been changed a lot and “with electricity everywhere it’s not a problem to live in villages”.