Health for All

• Thus the Department of Medical Services which was a huge composite Department at the time of inception has decade by decade paved way for organisation of various separate Departments for better administration and from 1.1.99 onwards, this Department namely the Department of Medical and Rural Health Services is being entrusted with the responsibility of rendering Medical Care services to the public through the Non-Teaching Medical Institutions.
• Through the pursuit of various policies and Programmes, the Department is aiming to translate the Alma Alta Declaration of

        Health for All in to reality.

• The reduction in Infant Mortality Rate, Maternal Mortality Rate, Crude Death Rate and Crude Birth Rate come through the services of the Medical Institutions under the Control of this Department.
• Department Functioning:
• The Department of Medical and Rural Health Services is rendering Medical Services through the grid of 25 District Head Quarters Hospitals, 162 Taluk Hospitals, 79 Non Taluk Hospitals, 12 Dispensaries and 11 Mobile Medical Units, besides 23 District T.B. Centres, 5 T.B. Hospitals and 2 TB Clinics and 1 Leprosy Hospital are under the control of this Department.

Personnels under the D.M.E. control

MEDICAL OFFICERS: 

         1.        Reader /Professors: 863 

        2.        Lecturer / Registrars : 169 

        3.        Tutor/Asst.Surgeons : 2379

NURSING PERSONNEL:

1.        Principal: 1

2.        Reader in Nursing: 9

3.        Lecturer in Nursing: 10

4.        Assistant Lecturer: 7

5.        Nursing Tutor Grade I: 16

6.        Nursing Tutor Grade II: 72

7.        Nursing Superintendent Grade I: 20

8.        Nursing Superintendent Grade II: 56

9.        Nursing Superintendent Grade III: 360

10.     Nurses: 3486

11.     Nurses on Contract basis: 528

12.     Social Worker: 32

13.     Health Visitor: 63

14.     Maternity Assistant: 34

15.     A.N.M: 44

Directorate of Medical Education

The Directorate of Medical Education was bifurcated in the year 1966 from the Directorate of Medical Services. It is functioning as a separate Directorate for the last 36 years. It is controlling Medical Colleges and attached teaching hospitals.

Director of Medical Education:

Dr.C.Ravindranath M.B.B.S., D.Ortho D.I.P(Phy.Med.) DNB(PMR)

Directorate of Medical Education is entrusted with the responsibility of implementing teaching, training and research programmes in the medical field and patient care services.

The Director of Medical Education is the  Head of the Department and he is assisted at the State headquarters by the following personnel. 

1. Addl.Director of Medical Education ( Medical )

2. Addl.Director of Medical Education & Secretary, Selection Committee.

3. Joint Director of Medical Education ( Selection Committee)

4. Joint Director of Medical Education ( Pharmacy )

5. Deputy Director of Medical Education ( Admn)

6. Deputy Director of Medical Education ( P & D)

6. Deputy Director of Medical Education ( A & R)

7. Deputy Director of Medical Education ( H & D)

8. Deputy Director of Medical Education ( PG)

9. Deputy Director of Medical Education (UG)

10. Deputy Director of Medical Education (Nursing)

11. Deputy Director of Medical Education (Statistics)

12.  Law Officer

13.  Financial Advisor & Chief Accounts Officer

14.  Administrative Officer (Manager)

15.  Administrative Officers for various subjects