AIIMS Bhubaneswar faces hurdles in quality faculty recruitment

What’s worst, the initial response for basic posts in vacancies in super specialities such as nephrology, surgical gastroenterology and surgical oncology, is not good.

Director Ashok Mohapatra is implied to have said that even though shortage of medical facility continues to be a nationwide concern, AIIMS is a premier institute, and we cannot compromise of the quality of the hiring faculty, even under this situation.

"Finding medical faculty is a big problem across the country. Moreover, keeping in mind the AIIMS mandate of a premier tertiary care institution, we can't compromise on quality while hiring the faculty. This makes our job tougher, he said.

As reported by TOI, Mohapatra said the problem is not discipline-specific. For Bhubaneswar AIIMS, location disadvantage may be one of the factors. Experienced medical teachers settled in bigger cities may not be willing to come here, he said.

He said such problems were not unexpected and an institute of AIIMS stature would not come up night. The AIIMS hospital, which currently has 380 beds, is projected to be a 1,000-hospital when fully commissioned. In its around three year of existence, AIIMS has treated over seven lakh patients on its outdoors by now.