Health ministry to introduce central recruitment at all AIIMS

A committee comprising Dr V K Paul, Member (Health) NITI Aayog; Additional Secretary, PMSSY, Ministry of Health; and Director, AIIMS, New Delhi is planning to introduce central recruitment at all AIIMS. The committee is established to strengthen the process of recruitment of faculty and non-faculty in various AIIMS. Read here for more details.

The union health ministry is planning to introduce centralised recruitment for faculty and non-faculty hiring at various AIIMS across India to address the shortage of personnel at these AIIMS.

The ministry has established a committee comprising Dr V K Paul, Member (Health) NITI Aayog; Additional Secretary, PMSSY, Ministry of Health; and Director, AIIMS, New Delhi.

"Following the Central Institute Body (CIB) meeting held on January 8 at AIIMS Bhubaneswar, with a view to strengthening the process of recruitment of faculty and non-faculty in various AIIMS, including examining the possibility of introducing centralised recruitment, the committee is constituted," an order issued on February 28 said, as reported by Economic Times.

"The central recruitment system will make the appointment process of faculties and non-faculties more transparent and smooth. Besides, it will also facilitate their easy transfer from one AIIMS to another. Currently, these individual AIIMS recruit their own personnel. It has been seen that talented doctors are reluctant for positions outside their states where they are based or in hard-to-reach areas," an official source explained.

AIIMS faculty shortage: The background

As per the health ministry's data, nearly 44% of the faculty posts are lying vacant in 18 new AIIMS with AIIMS Rajkot having the lowest number of personnel with just 40 faculties hired out of the sanctioned 183 posts.

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