New Delhi: The Dean of the Employees State Insurance Company (ESIC) Hospital and Medical College in Hyderabad, Dr M. Srinivas, has been appointed as the new director of the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi.
The Appointment Committee of the Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, appointed Dr Srinivas Friday as the new director of the prestigious AIIMS.
Srinivas has been assigned the job for five years or till he turns 65 years, according to a PTI report quoting the DoPT order dated 23 September.
This brings the tenure of Randeep Guleria as AIIMS director to an end. Guleria was appointed on 28 March, 2017.
At the time of his appointment, Srinivas, was working as the Dean of the Employees State Insurance Company (ESIC) Hospital and Medical College in Sanathnagar in Hyderabad.
Srinivas was on deputation at the ESIC Hospital and continues to be a professor of pediatric surgery at AIIMS. Including Guleria, AIIMS has had 15 directors so far since its foundation in 1956. All former directors have been employees at the institute at the time of their appointment.
The only exception, understandably, was first director Bhalchandra Babaji Dikshit, who was a general surgeon in Mumbai before AIIMS was established.
Randeep Guleria joined AIIMS as an assistant professor 23 years before he became its director.
Srinivas is known for having given ESIC a new lease of life. In previous interviews to the media, Srinivas said the ESIC hospital was no more than concrete walls when he was appointed its dean.
“When I was assigned this responsibility, a senior government functionary told me (to) bring this (hospital) to life from coma,” Srinivas told The Asian Age in a 2019 interview.
Srinivas made the hospital – it had lost its licence twice — one of the busiest in the country in a span of three years.
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