Govt. appoints Venkataramana as In-Charge Director of Public Health
He will be succeeding Padmavathi who is retiring from service on September 30; Prabhakar Reddy is new Superintendent of Nandyal GGH
The State government of India has appointed R. Venkataramana, currently serving as Additional Director in the Disease Control Programme, as the In-Charge Director of Public Health (DPH). This decision was approved by the Minister for Health, Medical and Family Welfare, Satya Kumar Yadav, on Tuesday. K. Padmavathi, who has been the Director of Public Health for the past 33 months, is scheduled to retire on September 30.
She has spent 37 years in various roles within the Department of Health, Medical and Family Welfare. Prior to selecting Dr. Venkataramana, the department reviewed seven other candidates, rejecting two due to pending inquiries and two lacking the necessary experience. Additionally, one candidate had a brief tenure as District Medical and Health Officer, while another was set to retire in June.
A separate announcement stated that cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon C. Prabhakar Reddy was appointed as the new Superintendent of Nandyal Government General Hospital, where he currently works as a professor at Kurnool Government Medical College. Recently, nine professors from various government medical colleges and hospitals were promoted to Additional Directors of Medical Education.
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