CM issues appointment orders to 500 doctors

TNN | Nov 22, 2017, 00:18 IST

 

Chennai: Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday handed over appointment orders to 556 doctors at a function held in the city. The doctors will be posted in vacant posts in various state-run hospitals, he said.

With this, nearly 96% of all posts in the government medical colleges, hospitals and primary health centres have been filled, Palaniswami said. "The remaining 4% of the seats will be filled up soon," he added. Appointment orders were also given to 175 junior assistants and 49 typists and seven others for taking notes in short-hand, who were appointed through the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission.

This year, the state has appointed 721 specialists and 1,229 doctors to various posts, taking the total number of recruitments from the Tamil Nadu Medical Service Recruitment Board to 10,858 since 2012, the chief minister said. He urged doctors, nurses and paramedical staff to serve the poor who visit government hospitals. Health minister C Vijayabaskar and senior health officials including health secretary J Radhakrishnan were present at the event.