AIIMS creates 230 new posts to meet crunch

New Delhi: 6th January 2012

The Union health ministry on Thursday sanctioned the creation of 230 new faculty positions in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences to tide over acute faculty crunch. The new posts include 144 assistant professors, five professors, an additional professor, 10 lecturers in nursing and 70 technical personnel. A ministry official said “We have sent the order to the administration of AIIMS. The posts will be filled up soon. It will improve patient service and teaching and take the load off the present faculty.”