PGI Chandigarh Says News Report On 62% Vacancy Incorrect, High Court Seeks Recruitment Rules
The Punjab & Haryana Excessive Courtroom on Friday (July 4) requested for recruitment guidelines pertaining to nursing employees to be filed earlier than it in a suo motu case initiated by the court docket taking cognizance of a information report claiming scarcity of nursing employees and hospital attendants in Chandigarh’s Postgraduate Institute of Medical Training and Analysis (PGIMER).
A division bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry was listening to the suo motu cognizance taken in June “on the idea of stories merchandise printed in ‘Occasions of India’ on 17.06.2025, highlighting the plight of sufferers and their attendants on account of a considerable scarcity of hospital attendants and nursing employees.”
In response to the newspaper report, the hospital is going through a extreme scarcity of hospital attendants, with a staggering 62% of sanctioned posts mendacity vacant.
Through the listening to in the present day, the Senior Standing Counsel Amit Jhanji, representing PGIMER, Chandigarh, produced standing report refuting the newspaper report declare that 62% posts are vacant, nonetheless sure posts usually are not stuffed as a result of no appropriate candidates might be discovered, he added.
“Standing report filed by the respondent – PGIMER reveals that there are sure reputable the explanation why posts within the cadres of Nursing Superintendent, Deputy Nursing Superintendent, Assistant Nursing Superintendent, Senior Nursing Officer, Nursing Officer, Public Well being Nursing Officer and Hospital Attendants are vacant,” the bench famous.
Whereas itemizing the matter for July 23, the Courtroom mentioned, “Let the recruitment guidelines pertaining to all of the aforesaid posts be filed by the respondent-PGIMER.”
Mr. Amit Jhanji, Senior Advocate, with Mr. Abhishek Ok. Premi, Advocate, for the respondent – PGIMER.
Title: Courtroom by itself movement v. PGIMER, Chandigarh by it Director, Chandigarh
