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Medical Wing of CAPFs, NSG & ARs

Prior to the years 2004, each paramilitary in India such as CRPF,BSF,ITBP,SSB had its own cadre of medical officers. Assam Rifles had its own needs fulfilled by Indian army and CISF was serviced by doctors on deputation from ITBP. In 2004, Ministry of Home affairs decided to create an unified medical wing for all the seven paramilitary forces by combining the medical officers cadre of each force and creating three additional cadres of Specialists, super-specialists and dental officers. It was decided to restructure the medical wing on the basis of Central health services of the government of India. the restructuring process was done to ensure that the doctors had a career progression at par with the general duty officers of the forces and specialists and super-specialist services would be provided to the personnel and their dependents in house. It was decided that a total of thirty three 50 bedded composite hospitals, six 100 bedded and one 200 bedded referral hospital would be setup across the country to provide secondary and tertiary level care for the force members. 35 posts of DIG(Medical), 11 posts of IG(Medical) and one posts of ADG(Medical) was created patterned on CHS to provide further career progression for doctors in forces. Dr R N Samantray Of ITBP was the first ADG (Medical). He was followed by Dr. Kulbhushan of CRPF, Dr R S Rathore of ITBP, Dr T. Ravi Prasad of ITBP, Dr B S Pandey of ITBP and is currently held by DR A K Dhawan of ITBP.