ahmedabad a petitioneradvocate in the pil related to covidlockdown k r koshti filed an affidavit in the gujarat high court on wednesday and contended that the state government suppressed uncomfortable figures on medical infrastructure in response to a report published in toi about vacancies in the health department the high court had sought details koshti claimed that the government had not presented the true picture to the high court and health infrastructure and medical education have been plagued by vacancies and ad hoc appointments at health centres hospitals and medical colleges across the stateplacing data obtained from the state government portals and through the right to information act rti koshti contended that gujarats health infrastructure is suffering mainly because of vacancies gujarat has 68 of its population in rural areas and 32 in urban areas whereas 80 of its doctors are appointed in urban areas and only 20 are in rural areas the petitioners affidavit contended that nearly 90 of posts of specialist doctors are vacant at community health centres chcs in rural areas there is a shortfall of 88 in superintendents 80 in classi specialists 19 in classii medical officers and 24 in classii dentists at chcs at amc hospitals the number of sanctioned posts is 3382 of these 985 29 are vacant lg hospital has the highest proportion of vacancies 39 koshti contended