PGI Chandigarh's panel meet postponed amid Telemedicine dept expansion concerns
PGI Chandigarh
Chandigarh: The Standing Finance Committee (SFC) meeting of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI Chandigarh), initially scheduled for last week in New Delhi, has been postponed, with the rescheduled date pending confirmation. The delay is attributed to the unavailability of Health Secretary Sudhansh Pant.
Furthermore, there is growing discontent among some officials within the ministry as the expansion of the telemedicine department has not been included in the supplementary agenda.
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'' In the previous SFC, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had expressed discontent for not including faculty posts for telemedicine department and only getting non-faculty posts approved,'' said an official in the ministry.
As per a media report in TOI, the absence of an agenda item related to the telemedicine department's expansion in the day's planned SFC meeting was noted. This was despite recent praise from the Minister of Health and Family Welfare in Parliament. The decision to hold an additional SFC meeting within a year came under the directive of former Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan.
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