The Telangana state government is contemplating to fill up various vacant positions of associate professors, assistant professors and other support staff across all the government teaching hospitals in the state.

To this effect, the finance ministry and the chief minister’s office have already cleared the final approval and send to the health minister’s office for the preparation of a formal notification which is expected to be released soon. “In order to overcome the shortage of faculty in all the teaching government medical hospitals, the state government is going to soon release a notification to fill up 1092 vacancy posts. All clearances have been done, except the final nod of chief minister’s office, after which the health ministry will release a notification,” informed a senior officer in the Directorate of Medical Education.

According to inputs available, the state government had created 115 new units in different departments. Of which General Medicine and General Surgery constitute 12 units each, 20 units in Gynecology, 14 units in Pediatrics etc. Among these units, the government is expected to fill 99 posts of Associate professors, 198 Assistant professors, 463 staff nurses, 77 technical assistants, 52 laboratory attenders, 34 store keepers, 5 posts of child psychologists, 16 social workers, 5 posts each of health educators and dark room assistants, 65 steno typists and 75 posts of record clerks across all the government teaching hospitals in the state.

Particularly, these posts will be filled in Government Teaching hospitals attached to the newly established medical colleges in Mahabubnagar, Warangal and Nizamabad in addition to filling up of vacancies in the existing old teaching hospitals.

“This is great news for the unemployed medical professionals who have been waiting for very long since past few years. We are eagerly looking for the release of a formal notification, which will help unemployed medical professionals to apply under various posts,” said Dr. Bhaskar, a Medical Postgraduate candidate waiting for openings in the government medical colleges.