25% vacant posts of Super Specialty Asst. Professors filled up For Super Specialty doctors, an additional amount of Rs.30,000 per month is paid as an incentive.

1. 41 recruited through walk in interview under Special Drive
2. Similar recruitment of Associate Professors and Professors next week
3. Health Minister directs special drive to fill up 50% vacancies of Super Specialists

Under the special recruitment drive taken up for filling up the large number of vacant posts of Super Specialists in 20 Government General Hospitals and Super Specialty Hospitals, 41 Assistant Professors with Super Specialty qualification in various fields have been recruited. Directorate of Medical Education held walk-in interviews last Monday for filling up the vacant posts of such Assistant Professors. After verification of documents, DME today announced recruitment of 41 doctors with DM and MCH qualification in addition to Post Graduation in respective fields.

Recruitment of these 41 super specialists under special drive helps in reducing the vacancies in this category by 25%. Of the 365 sanctioned posts of Super Specialty Assistant Professors, 166 posts accounting for 45% of the total sanctioned were vacant before this special recruitment.

Contrary to the claims of the previous government, during a review taken up by Health Minister Sri Satyakumar Yadav recently, it has been revealed that of the total 682 sanctioned posts of Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Professors belonging to Super Specialty category, 341 posts accounting for 50% of the total posts were vacant. Concerned by this, the Health Minister directed that special efforts be mounted to fill up the vacancies. The walk in interview held last week was in pursuance of this direction of the Minister.

Of the sanctioned posts of 157 Associate Professors, 79 posts accounting for 50% of the total are vacant. Against the 160 Professor posts 60% are vacant. To address these deficits, DME will hold walk in interviews for filling up the posts of Associate Professors and Professors next week, informed the Director of Medical Education.

Across the government hospitals in tertiary healthcare sector, Super Specialty services are being provided in 12 disciplines viz., Cardiology, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Gastro -Enterology, Surgical Gastro-Enterology, Endocrinology, Nephrology, Neurology, Neo-Natology, Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Oncology and Urology.