LUCKNOW, June 8 -- With a week to go before the deadline for annual transfers ends on June 15, relief has come for government doctors who do not hold an administrative post.

In a government order issued by principal secretary, medical health, U.P., Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma recently, the time period of 3 years of service in a district and 7 years in a division has been relaxed if a doctor is working only as consultant or surgeon at a hospital.

So, now chief medical officers and additional chief medical officers will be transferred out of districts or divisions if they have completed three years in a district or seven years in a division. Transfer will also be applicable to the chief medical superintendents and directors of hospitals.

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