Mega medical shake up in Delhi hospitals
The medical superintendents of Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital, Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital, Shri Dada Dev Matri Avum Shishu Chikitsalaya , Satyawadi Raja Harish Chandra Hospital, Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital and Lok Nayak Hospital have been transferred from their respective posts.
In its latest notification, the Delhi government on Friday has reshuffled the doctors and medical superintendents of 13 government hospitals in the national Capital. The order was issued by the Health and Family Welfare department of Delhi government on Friday afternoon. Mail Today had first reported about the likelihood of the reshuffle. A copy of the reshuffle list is with Mail Today.
Last year also the AAP government had issued marching orders to the medical superintendents of 16 government hospitals terming it as "routine changes". It's no different this year. "These are routine transfers," Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain told Mail Today on Friday.
As per the list, the medical superintendents of Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital, Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital, Shri Dada Dev Matri Avum Shishu Chikitsalaya , Satyawadi Raja Harish Chandra Hospital, Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital and Lok Nayak Hospital have been transferred from their respective posts.
Apart from the medical superintendents, certain chief medical officers (CMOs) have also been transferred. The CMO of Lok Nayak Hospital has been shifted to Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital as a medical superintendent; the CMO of Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital has been moved to Shri Dada Dev Matri Avum Shishu Chikitsalaya.
Dr Siddharth Ramji, who was serving as the medical superintendent of Lok Nayak Hospital, will now completely take over as the Director Professor at Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC). Earlier, he was holding both the charges.
According to the sources in Delhi government, Ramji himself By Astha Saxena in New Delhi expressed his wish to focus on academics. In a few months, the medical college will start a new course, DM neonatology. Confirming that Ramji told Mail Today: "Yes, I expressed my views and the government understood my vision. We have a fully functional neonatology unit and we will soon be starting this new course for the students."
On May 19, Mail Today had reported that Delhi government was planning to reshuffle the medical superintendents of 10 government hospitals. Sources at Delhi government had told Mail Today that the health minister had prepared a list of few government hospitals from where the medical superintendents would be reshuffled.
The government had also asked all the hospitals under it for the names of doctors who have experiences of more than three and five years. This was for the first time that such a circular was issued by the government. A copy of the circular is with MAILTODAY.
"We have asked the doctors to submit their preference. The entire process will take more than a month now," Health Minister Jain said.
The AAP government had in 2014 transferred the medical superintendents of Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital, Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital, Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital, Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital, Rao Tula Ram Memorial Hospital and Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital.