BFUHS appoints new Vice Chancellor - Rajeev Sood
Rajeev Sood is the new Vice Chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences. He graduated from Maulana Azad Medical College in Delhi and cleared MS (General Surgery) from Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and PGIMER in Delhi and subsequently did MCh (Urology) from AIIMS Delhi.
Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit appointed Dr Rajeev Sood as the vice chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) in Faridkot.
He has been appointed for three years, with effect from the date of his assumption of office, said an official release here, as reported by The Print.
About Rajeev Sood - the new VC of BFUHS
He has been the dean of the RML Hospital-Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Delhi for five and a half years. There were a total of five candidates competing for this post as the Punjab government had submitted a list of five candidates to the governor for making the appointment.
Mr Sood has extensive experience spanning 40 years in medical practice. His teaching experience includes 26 years Post MCh and 12 years as a professor, said an official release.
Rajeev Sood has been attached to the Parliament as Uro Consultant for 10 years and has been for five years the Uro Consultant to the President of India.
The background
The post was lying vacant since August last year following the resignation of Dr Raj Bahadur after he was “humiliated” at the hands of minister Chetan Singh Jouramajra. The former vice chancellor had alleged that he was forced to lie on a dirty mattress at a hospital by the state’s health minister.
After Dr Bahadur resigned last year, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann announced the appointment of noted cardiologist Dr Gurpreet Singh Wander as BFUHS’s vice chancellor, however, Banwarilal Purohit, the chancellor of the universities in the state, had declined to clear the name of Wander and had sought the AAP government to send a list of three names.
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