Dr Rajeev Sood takes charge as vice-chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences

Faridkot: Renowned Urologist, Dr Rajeev Sood has assumed the charge of vice-chancellor at Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) in Faridkot.

Dr Sood has a 40 years long glorious career as a medical professional. His teaching experience includes 26 years Post MCh and 12 years as a professor. He plans to prioritize finishing pending works and aims to make BFUHS the top university in north India. 

He has previously served as the dean of PGIMER-Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi. He will take over the charge from the previous vice-chancellor, Dr Raj Bahadur, who allegedly left after being humiliated during an inspection. He has been attached to the Parliament as Uro Consultant for 10 years and has been for five years the Uro Consultant to the President of India.

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He completed his MBBS from Maulana Azad Medical College in Delhi and cleared MS (General Surgery) from Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and PGIMER in Delhi and subsequently did MCh (Urology) from AIIMS Delhi.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit appointed Dr Rajeev Sood, who has filled up the post that became vacant in August last year following the resignation of Dr Raj Bahadur.

The post of vice chancellor of BFUHS fell vacant in August last year following the resignation of Dr Raj Bahadur after he was “humiliated” at the hands of minister Chetan Singh Jouramajra. The former vice chancellor had alleged that he was forced to lie on a dirty mattress at a hospital by the state’s health minister, reports PTI.

After his resignation, medical education director Dr Avnish Kumar was holding the additional charge of the university’s top post. After Dr Bahadur resigned, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann announced the appointment of noted cardiologist Dr Gurpreet Singh Wander as BFUHS’s vice chancellor, however, Banwarilal Purohit, the chancellor of the universities in the state, had declined to clear the name of Wander and had sought the AAP government to send a list of three names.

Finally, Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit announced the appointment Dr Rajeev Sood the vice-chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) in Faridkot. 

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