Association urges DMS to conduct counselling to fill civil surgeon posts

The Service Doctors and Post Graduates Association (SDPGA) has urged the Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services (DMS) to conduct the transfer and promotion counselling for the posts of Chief Civil Surgeons (CCS) and Senior Civil Surgeons (SCS). The delay in promoting the doctors — two batches of 2023 and 2024 — has led to administrative stagnation, with many posts of CCS remaining vacant in government hospitals under the directorate.

P. Saminathan, president of SDPGA, in a letter to the Director of Medical and Rural Health Services, urged the DMS to conduct the transfer and promotion counselling for 2023 and 2024 panels (a seniority list of doctors eligible to be promoted) for CCS and SCS.

He said the delay in promoting the doctors from the cadre of civil surgeons to SCS and from SCS to CCS has led to administrative stagnation, with many posts of CCS remaining vacant; in many hospitals, the posts of Chief Medical Officers were being managed on an in-charge basis. “The two panels are pending. If the promotions were given on time, more doctors could have become CCS. All government hospitals under DMS should be headed by a CCS.”