India, March 14 -- Chandigarh The member of parliament (MP) from Chandigarh Manish Tewari has raised serious concerns over the health care infrastructure in the union territory (UT), especially after evasive answers were given by the ministry of health and family welfare in the Lok Sabha on the availability of doctors.

Focusing entirely on the staffing situation in UT's health system, Tewari sought detailed information from the Union ministry asking the sanctioned strength of doctors in the city's health department the last time new posts were created and recruitment was done. He further asked about speciality wise vacancies against regular posts and whether doctors from other states were being called on deputation based.

Seeking to und...