JAMMU, Nov. 29 -- Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo today held a meeting of the Health & Medical Education (H&ME) Department to look into the identification of blocks facing an acute shortage of medics there besides deliberating upon the ways to address the issue.

Besides the Secretary,H&ME Department, the meeting was attended by the MD, NHM; Principals of Medical Colleges; Director, Coordination; Director of Health Services, Kashmir/Jammu; Director, Ayush and other concerned officers in the Department.

The Chief Secretary first had an overview of the availability of staff and its strength at each level of the hierarchy. He then scrutinized blocks in the peripheral districts that face critical deficiency in terms of the availability of docto...