State govt mulls lateral entry of medical specialists, Health News, ET HealthWorld
Chennai: The health department is considering direct recruitment, including walk-in interviews, for the appointment of specialists and superspecialists, health Minister Ma Subramanian announced on Friday.
Govt doctors’ associations have been holding protests against 30% vacancies in various sanctioned posts of doctors, assistant and associate professors and professors in govt hospitals. Subramanian said, “The state is contemplating appointing specialists to fill the vacancies. We hear it was done in the past but are seeking legal opinion.”
Until now, medical officers working in PHCs were moved to the hospitals under directorate of medical services and medical education after their post-graduation and super-speciality, he said.
Meanwhile, the medical recruitment board will conduct an online examination for the recruitment of medical officers on Jan 5, 2025, ahead of the original schedule of Jan 27, he said. The recruitment board has outsourced an agency to conduct simultaneous online examinations for 23,915 candidates on January 5. “We have given MRB additional staff to ensure appointments of candidates who qualify for these exams are not delayed. The MRB will recruit 2,553 candidates,” he said.
“Promotion orders are being issued one after the other to 110 associate professors to professors in 40 departments. A total of 296 candidates moved up from assistant professor to associate professor in govt medical colleges under the directorate of medical education. In the directorate of medical services, four orders were issued for promotion from joint directors to additional directors, and orders were issued for the promotion of 18 persons from chief civil surgeon to joint directors and joined service.
Recently, the DMS appointed 1,200 nurses and said 940 nurses who worked during Covid-19 would be appointed on contract initially.
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