T.N. doctors protest transfer counselling, Directorate of Medical Education postpones session

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The Directorate of Medical Education (DME) postponed a peculiar intra/inter directorate transportation counselling to capable vacant posts of adjunct professors, elder residents, inferior residents and tutors successful 7 authorities aesculapian facilities aft doctors affiliated with the Tamil Nadu Medical Officers Association (TNMOA) staged a protestation connected its premises connected Wednesday (October 15, 2025).

The directorate, connected October 8, issued a circular to behaviour the transportation counselling for vacant posts successful Kalaignar Centenary Super Speciality Hospital, Guindy; Periyar Government Hospital, Chennai; Government Medical Colleges astatine Ramanathapuram, the Nilgiris, Nagapattinam and Tiruvarur; and Government Arignar Anna Memorial Cancer Hospital, Kancheepuram.

According to its tentative vacancy list, retired of the 471 sanctioned posts successful these facilities, including that of adjunct professors crossed specialities specified arsenic Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 288 are vacant. The counselling was scheduled to beryllium held connected Wednesday.

Registering its objection, TNMOA said counselling sessions were held successful a peculiar order, and this circular bypassed it. The counselling sessions that should person been held successful March 2025 were delayed owed to “administrative delays” by the directorate. Following the protest, the DME postponed the counselling.

Published - October 16, 2025 11:13 americium IST

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