Agra: As many as 363 posts of doctors and faculty members, and 1,055 posts of paramedical staff are lying vacant at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, according to the response to an RTI query, a copy of which is with TOI.
The institute has a total of 1,207 sanctioned posts of doctors/faculty members as of March 21, 2023, and 8,225 posts of paramedical staff as of March 15, 2023, revealed the data.
As per details shared by the chief public information officers of the faculty and recruitment cells of AIIMS-Delhi, a total of 40 doctors/assistant professors, 31 nursing officers and one medical physicist are working on a contractual basis in 24 departments of the premier institute. Out of over 40 departments and speciality centres, none has the required number of doctors, the data pointed out.
Based on the RTI information, the maximum number of vacant posts (70) are at the mother and child care unit which was partially opened in July last year. According to the information provided, major departments with vacant posts of faculty members include obstetrics and gynaecology (12 vacancies), paediatrics (10), anatomy (7), haematology (6), emergency medicine (5), pathology (5), gastroenterology and human nutrition (4), pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine (4), physiology (4).
Vacancies in other departments as well pharmacology, radio-diagnosis and interventional radiology, surgical disciplines, urology, microbiology, dermatology and venereology, geriatric medicine, nephrology, orthopaedics, gastrointestinal surgery and liver transplantation.
The data of specialty centres operated by the hospital shows availability of 14 vacancies at the cardio-thoracic centre.
These include seven posts for cardiologists and four for cardiothoracic and vascular surgeons. Meanwhile, the centre for dental education and research has 10 vacant posts and the neuro-sciences centre has 14 openings. These include five posts for neurologists and three for neurosurgeons. The surgical unit has a total of 13 vacant positions for doctors.
Administered by AIIMS Delhi, the National Cancer Institute in Jhajjar district of Haryana has 52 vacancies.
Last month, in response to a question raised in Parliament, the Union health ministry had released information on the vacant positions of doctors, nurses and other support staff at 24 centre-run hospitals. The data showed that of the total 27,483 vacancies, 23,025 positions have not been filled in 14 AIIMS across the country.
Meanwhile, the ministry is examining the possibility of introducing centralised recruitment for faculty and non-faculty to address the shortage of personnel at the institute. In this regard, a three-membered committee headed by Dr VK Paul, member (health), NITI Aayog was constituted last month.
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