After noting that 80 doctors have been continuously absent in the last several years in the health department as a result of which health services in the state suffered, the J&K government formed a 3-member committee to come with a guideline that would fasten the process terminating absentee doctors and quickly fill in vacancies.

Currently, there is no protocol in place to deal with such doctors. Just last year the government had to terminate the services of 200 doctors for the same reason. The committee will now be checking if the head of departments at the various government institutions granted permissions for leave of these doctors and the intent for which the leaves were permitted.

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