Inefficiency of the Health Ministry has been blamed for the failure to claim Rs. 26.92 million of due from several doctors who failed to honour agreements for studies overseas.
Also, the ministry has lost a considerable sum as the due has been calculated to favour the doctors, who had not reported back for duty or had not served the mandatory service period after leaving the country on paid-leave for postgraduate studies.
The ministry has not been able to claim Rs. 22.57 million of the due as it could not find the addresses of the doctors.
For the past year alone, it should recover another sum of Rs. 62.71 million from the doctors who had violated the service agreements.
Ministry sources say administrative problems have worsened as a majority of officials in the administrative level are doctors.
As much as 85 per cent of the administrative level officials at the ministry office in Colombo are doctors, which in turn has created a shortage of doctors in difficult areas.
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