Nine senior doctors have been appointed in different departments in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Raipur on Thursday. More junior and senior doctors were expected to join the organisation within a few days.
The recruitment drive for the posts had ended on November 25 after which the selected candidates were interviewed and selected for further rounds.
The hospital administration would appoint around 600 more senior and junior doctors in the hospital in the coming days, said medical superintendent Dr Ajay Dani. Within a couple of weeks, 147 doctors would appear for written examination out of which 107 would be appointed as junior doctors, he said.
Dani said around 300 posts of junior doctors and 300 posts of senior doctors have been created in the hospital. Appointment on all 300 posts for junior doctors would be made while around 100 senior doctors would be allotted posts in the hospital. Junior doctors would assist them in OPDs and emergency wards.
Apart from the basic educational qualification, the candidates were also judged on the basis of their experience and numbers of research papers published, said Neeresh Sharma, deputy director (admin) of AIIMS.
Dr Snehmayi Nayak and Dr Bindra Pradhan have been appointed in the department of Pediatrics. Dr Abhimanyu Anant in Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) department, Dr Shweta Kujur in department of Anesthesiology, Dr Sushil Ojha in Ophthalmology, Dr Nitin Vale in department of Orthopedics, Dr Sandeep Kulkarni in Dermatology, Dr Varsha Pandey in Blood bank and Dr Shweta Bhanot has been appointed in the department of Endocrinology. These senior doctors would handle the OPD and emergency wards of their respective departments.
A 150-bed trauma unit would be innagurated in AIIMS in January. Dani said the ward would be opened in the first week of January once the construction work would be complete.