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The department will also fill four permanent vacant posts, while ophthalmology resident doctors have met with the new HoD to discuss thesis allocation..
Mumbai: The state medical education department has appointed joint director of medical education and research Dr Ajay Chandanwale to streamline Sir JJ Hospitals ophthalmology department after it accepted the resignations and voluntary retirement request of Dr Ragini Parekh, head of the ophthalmology department, and seven honorary doctors on Saturday...
In an order on Saturday, Dr Ravi Chavan, professor of ophthalmology, IGGMC Nagpur, was asked to take charge of JJ ophthalmology department from Monday.. We conducted interviews for the honorary posts and shortlisted five candidates..
On Saturday, the medical education department had also accepted the resignation of the ex-director of medical education and research (DMER) Dr TP Lahane from the post of coordinator of state governments Preventable Blindness-Free Maharashtra programme along with VRS request of Dr Parekh..
While a high-level drama went on with Dr Lahane and his team holding a press conference denying the allegations levied against them by the resident doctors and calling it a conspiracy against them, sources at the medical education department said figures of cataract surgeries done in all state medical colleges in the last one year was called...
