400 civil assistant surgeons to be recruited

HYDERABAD: The state government has issued orders for creation of 400 additional posts of civil assistant surgeons under the control of the director of public health and family welfare for accommodating PG liens on contract basis.The government had increased the number of clinical subject seats by 30 percent in service quota and by 50 percent in the non-clinical quota, due to which there is an increase in the selection of in-service candidates. There are only 200 PG Lien posts shown in the central pool.The in-service PG doctors, who are drawing salaries at Primary Health centres and other government institutions, are to be shifted immediately to the central pool under the state directorate of public health and family welfare.