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The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) Friday termed as false state government’s data on vacancy of doctors’ posts and claimed that over 3,800 posts of doctors are now lying vacant. “Approximately 3800 number of doctor posts are lying vacant in the state,” Patnaik claimed in a statement. OPCC President Niranjan Patnaik said total approved number of cadre post of doctors in Odisha including Community Health Center (CHC), Primary Health Centre (PHC), sub-divisional Headquarter hospitals and district headquarter hospitals is 6719. While the government is announcing schemes after schemes in health care sector, people are not getting basic health care facilities, Patnaik said accusing the Government of not trying to fill vacant doctor posts. However, as per health and family welfare minister Pratap Jena’s version in the state assembly, now 1609 doctors and 275 dentist posts are lying vacant, the PCC chief claimed and said “this is based on false data..