AIIMS Guwahati gets new Executive Director

After approval from the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), Dr Ashok Puranik has assumed charges as the new executive director of AIIMS Guwahati.

Before this, Dr Ashok Puranik was a professor at AIIMS Jodhpur. On Sunday, he took over the post of executive director of AIIMS Guwahati in the presence of faculty members and officers. He took charge of the post from the former executive director Dr Ramji Singh.

Ashok Puranik specialises in acute care surgeries, laparoscopic surgeries including laparoscopic inguinal, femoral incision, hernia repair, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, appendectomy and laparoscopic colorectal surgery, and trauma and surgical critical care, as reported by TOI.

ACC approved Executive Directors' appointments at various AIIMS

Last month, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved the proposal of the health ministry for the appointments of Executive Directors at AIIMS Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Patna, Rishikesh, Guwahati, Awantipora and Darbhanga.

ACC's notification reads, "The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the proposal of the Department of Health & Family Welfare for appointment of the following persons to the posts of Executive Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Patna, Rishikesh, Guwahati, Awantipora and Darbhanga, in Level 15 of the Pay Matrix plus admissible NPA, on deputation/short term contract/contract basis, for a period of 03 years w.e.f. the date of assumption of charge of the post (which may further be extended up to 05 years) or till the incumbent attains the age of 70 years, or until further orders, whichever is the earliest." 

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