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Garlapati Nanda Kishore has been elected arsenic the president of the Andhra Pradesh Medical Council (APMC), portion K. Venkata Subba Rao Naidu has been chosen arsenic the vice-chairman, Director of Secondary Health and Returning Officer for the elections, K.V.N. Chakradhar Babu, announced connected Wednesday.
The elections for the 2 apical positions were held astatine the APMC bureau successful Vijayawada connected Wednnesday. The existing aesculapian assembly is simply a 25-member body, with 13 members elected by registered aesculapian practitioners from crossed the State, 8 nominated posts and 4 ex-officio members. All of them took portion successful the voting connected Wednesday.
Sixteen members voted successful favour of Dr. Nanda Kishore, an ENT specializer from Guntur and a cardinal moving committee subordinate of the IMA, A.P.
Having completed his MBBS from Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada and Master of Surgery successful ENT from Andhra Medical College, Dr. Nanda Kishore has served arsenic a advisor ENT surgeon, HoD, and Associate Professor astatine Katuri Medical College. Dr. Nanda Kishore has 9 years of teaching experience.
The tenure of the president is 2 years, portion elections for the assembly are held erstwhile each 5 years.
Dr. Sreehari Rao, A.V. Subba Reddy, and Swarna Geetha were elected arsenic the enforcement members.
Meanwhile, the Health Care Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA) has opposed the predetermination process, saying that the elections were conducted by utilising the nominated-member system, which is contrary to the tone of democracy.
In a connection connected Wednesday, the HRDA alleged that the predetermination process lacked fairness and impartiality and that the opinions of elected members were disregarded.
