Retirement-age of doctors in Gujarat also to be raised to 65 years:Nitin Patel

Correspondent,Gandhinagar

A day after the decision of the union government to raise the retirement age of doctors in Central Health Services to 65 years, the Gujarat Government today also announced to do so for the doctors in the state government service.

Talking to newsmen here, government spokesperson and heath minister of Gujarat Mr. Nitin Patel said that the procedure to increase the age of superannuation of the doctors in the state government service to 65 years has been started.

‘We also welcome the central government’s decision which has come to effect immediately and accordingly (from May 31) in Gujarat along with other parts of the country and in the similar manner the state government will also follow suit. We have started the procedure and the age of retirement of doctors in the state government’s service would also be increased to 65 years,’ the minister said.

He said that this kind of initiative would help in dealing with the problem of scarcity of doctors also.

Notably, retirement age of doctors in central health service has been increased with effect from yesterday. The decision is said to benefit around 4000 doctors.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a rally in UP, last week had announced to bring parity in the retirement of doctors across the country.

– DeshGujarat