1092 posts for medical education, hospitals to be created in Telangana

Hyderabad: The Telangana Government has recently announced the creation of 1092 new posts for fresh requirements in both medical colleges and hospitals.

The government also predicted the creation of 115 new units in 13 departments of various government medical colleges.

Officials said that posts, include 99 associate professors, 198 assistant professors and 463 staff nurses & 463 technical assistants.

Apart from this, 115 new units (orthopaedics-6; general medicine-12 ;general surgery12paediatrics – 14; psychiatry-7; ; gynaecology-20; Ophthalmology-7; pulmonology-6; ENT-7; anaesthesia-11; radio diagnosis – 9; and radio therapy-1 ) in medical colleges will be created.

The government has also decided to take legal opinion, before initiating common counselling for under graduate and post graduate seats. This decision has been taken to avoid any legal tussle, before issuing an official directive on it.

“NEET score will be the criteria for filling seats, even in private medical colleges. We need some clarify on reservation system in this method and management quota seats, we are expecting a clearing in next week," Dr Karunakar Reddy, Vice Chancellor, Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences told the TOI.