India, Feb. 25 -- More than 1,000 posts of doctors are currently vacant across Jammu and Kashmir, according to figures shared by the Health and Medical Education Department.
Kashmir division accounts for 797 of these vacancies - comprising 24 senior consultants, 253 consultants, 458 medical officers and 62 dental surgeons - while Jammu division has 288 vacant consultant posts as on February 2026,
"The districts of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir are not facing an acute shortage of specialists...In order to overcome shortage of doctors in peripheral and remote areas, the government has recently referred 480 posts of medical officers to the J-K Public Service Commission for selection of suitable candidate," the medical and health...