Randeep Guleria gets three-month extension as AIIMS director
New Delhi Mar 23 PTI The tenure of Dr Randeep Guleria as the director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS here has been extended by three months according to an office memorandum issued by the premier hospitalGulerias current term is scheduled to end on Thursday March 24He was appointed as the director of AIIMS New Delhi for a term of five years on March 28 2017He will complete his tenure on 24032022 President AIIMS is pleased to extend his tenure wef March 25 2022 by three months or by the time new director is appointed whichever is earlier the office memorandum issued by the hospital on Tuesday saidOther terms and conditions of Gulerias appointment would be in accordance with the rules of the institute it addedThe four-member search-cum-selection committee comprising Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan Secretary of Department of Biotechnology Rajesh S Gokhale Principal Scientific Advisor to the government K Vijay Raghavan and Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh held a meeting on TuesdayThirty-two candidates are in contention for the post of director of AIIMS New DelhiOf the 32 there are 12 doctors of the hospital who have applied for the post including Rajesh Malhotra the head of the orthopaedics department and the chief of the trauma centre MV Padma Srivastava the chief of the neurosciences centre Nikhil Tandon the head of the endocrinology department Sunil Chumber the head of surgery A K Bishoi professor of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery CTVS and forensic chief Sudhir GuptaBesides Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava has also applied for the post PTI PLB RC
New Delhi Mar 23 PTI The tenure of Dr Randeep Guleria as the director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS here has been extended by three months according to an office memorandum issued by the premier hospitalGulerias current term is scheduled to end on Thursday March 24He was appointed as the director of AIIMS New Delhi for a term of five years on March 28 2017He will complete his tenure on 24032022 President AIIMS is pleased to extend his tenure wef March 25 2022 by three months or by the time new director is appointed whichever is earlier the office memorandum issued by the hospital on Tuesday saidOther terms and conditions of Gulerias appointment would be in accordance with the rules of the institute it addedThe four-member search-cum-selection committee comprising Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan Secretary of Department of Biotechnology Rajesh S Gokhale Principal Scientific Advisor to the government K Vijay Raghavan and Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh held a meeting on TuesdayThirty-two candidates are in contention for the post of director of AIIMS New DelhiOf the 32 there are 12 doctors of the hospital who have applied for the post including Rajesh Malhotra the head of the orthopaedics department and the chief of the trauma centre MV Padma Srivastava the chief of the neurosciences centre Nikhil Tandon the head of the endocrinology department Sunil Chumber the head of surgery A K Bishoi professor of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery CTVS and forensic chief Sudhir GuptaBesides Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava has also applied for the post PTI PLB RC
