Chandigarh, Oct 30 (PTI) Surjit Singh, the current head of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research's department of pediatrics, has been given the charge of officiating director of the institution effect November 1.

Singh has been given the charge for a period of six months or till the regular director is appointed, said a PGIMER release here.

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Jagat Ram on Saturday retired as the Director of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research.

Ram served a tenure of four years and seven months as Director and had spent 38 years in various other capacities at the prestigious institute.

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He joined PGIMER in the Department of Ophthalmology in 1979 as a resident doctor and then became a prominent faculty in 1994, head of the department in 2015 and finally the director of PGIMER in March 2017.

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