varanasi at least 12 of the 19 sanctioned positions of specialist doctors including physicians surgeons dermatologist and radiologist are lying vacant at the spg divisional hospital while the government women hospital and lbs hospital ramnagar are facing shortage of man powerchief medical officer dr sandeep chaudhary said that a demand for deployment of specialist doctors at the government hospital has been forwarded to the state government in this report the cmo has mentioned that there are 19 sanctioned positions including of physicians surgeons dermatologist and radiolosts against which 12 are lying vacant he said that as their deployment and transfer is done by the government and there is no local control on these arrangements the matter had been brought to the knowledge of the governmentthe cmo said that two physicians from the national health mission had been arranged for this hospital by his office while a dermatologist and surgeon had been arranged by the director general health office to ensure that patients coming to opd and admitted to indoor patient department are not sufferingthe chief medical superintendent of the district woman hospital and lbs government hospital authorities have also mentioned the shortage of doctors against the sanctioned positions in their hospitals in the report submitted to the dg health