Years of Training, Zero Posting: The Silent Struggle of Rajasthan’s Doctors

After nearly a decennial of persistent academic diligence, sleepless nights in hospital wards, and years spent learning life-saving skills, many postgraduate and senior resident doctors in Rajasthan now notice themselves in a disturbing limbo — qualified, trained, yet unemployed.

These doctors have finished their PG courses and senior residencies, stages meant to coherently transition them into active service within the public healthcare system. In lieu, administrative delays and blurred recruitment timelines have left them waiting infinitely, turning years of preparation into months of unreliability.

A Systemic Paradox

Rajasthan’s public health infrastructure continues to wrestle with doctor scarcity, particularly in district and rural hospitals. Absurdly, at the same time, thousands of fully trained experts remain unemployed. This disconnect reflects a serious governance aperture — a system that invests in training doctors but fails to recruit them when they are most required.

Human Cost Behind the White Coat

Beyond policy shortcomings lies a deeply personal chaos. Many of these doctors face financial issues, obstructed careers, and psychological burnout. With education loans to repay and families to hold up, the absence of prompt postings not only erodes professional majesty but also undermines spirit. For a profession created on service, being inadequate to serve is a quiet but comprehensive injustice.

Impact on Public Healthcare

Delayed recruit does not just effect doctors — they injure patients. Specialist vacancies lead to extended waiting times, heavy burdened existing staff, and compromised healthcare delivery. In disadvantaged regions, this delay can mean the difference between prompt care and avoidable loss.

Calls for Accountability and Reform

Doctors across Rajasthan are now intensely appealing to the state government to act. Their request is clear and justified: translucent, time-bound postings that honour both their training and the public’s healthcare requirements. Digital recruitment system, comprehensible vacancy mapping, and fixed timelines could avoid such crises in the future.

A healthcare system is only as powerful as the people who support it. When doctors who are ready to serve are coerced to wait in quiet, it highlights not their failure — but the system’s. Addressing this posting issues is not merely an administrative action; it is an ethical imperative. Rajasthan must act rapidly, ensuring that years of medical training translate into years of consequential service — for doctors and for the people they are meant to serve.