Chandigarh: By year-end, PGI top posts to fall vacant

CHANDIGARH: By the year end, all the top three posts at PGI will be vacant — that of the director, medical superintendent and dean research. It will be after 25 years that a new medical superintendent will occupy the vacant post after the selection process.

“There will be a change in the guard at the top level. For few months until the selection, the charge will be given to an officiating faculty member,” said an official at PGI.

Prof Jagat Ram will complete his five-year term as PGI director on October 31. Medical superintendent Prof Anil Gupta will complete his 25 years in the post in November-end. “Prof Gupta has been the longest serving medical superintendent. The process of his recruitment will be on the lines of faculty recruitment endorsed by the institute body chaired by the minister of health and family welfare,” said a faculty member.

The medical superintendent is also holding the post of dean research after Prof Gurpreet Singh had retired recently. “These are the top-most administrative posts which decide the running of the hospital,” said a faculty member.

He said, “While it can take between four and six months for the selection of the director, the medical superintendent’s post might fill after some three months, depending on the schedule of the governing body.”

Some faculty members felt until the new administrators were not selected, there could be some extent of disinterest in the system. “There is a deputy director administration who takes care of the administration, but he does not have the power of a director for appointment and other critical decisions,” said a faculty member.