India, Nov. 29 -- The cabinet also gave its nod to empanel 300 specialist doctors across 12 key specialties, including medicine, paediatrics, psychiatry, dermatology, chest & TB, surgery, gynaecology, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, ENT, and anaesthesiology across government health facilities, with an aim to meet the shortage of specialist doctors. The Punjab government has not been able to attract an adequate number of specialists in recruitments done over the past few years. The empanelment of specialists will be done at district-level through civil surgeons and the empanelled specialist shall be entitled to an empanelment fee per patient for various services such as OPD, IPD, emergency calls, major & minor surgeries and procedures and others. Finance minister Harpal Cheema said private doctors will get Rs.100 incentives both in IPD and OPD. However, a cap has been set on the number of patients these specialists can examine -- between 50 and 150 in the OPD, and two to twenty in the IPD, the minister added. Cheema said if a specialist government doctor, who is on night duty, is called at day time, they will get an incentive of Rs.1,000. If the doctor is not on duty during night hours, but is called during the period, then the incentive will double....