Departmental Promotion Committee of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has given promotion to 217 doctors yesterday.
Of them, 142 were promoted to senior consultant while the rest 75 to the post of assistant director or civil surgeon.
Two circulations signed by Khaleda Akhter and AKM Mukhlesur Rahman, deputy secretaries of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, were issued.
The promoted doctors, who had been appointed to the public hospitals, were advised to submit the joining letter to the authorities concerned.
Habibur Rahman Khan, joint secretary (personal-1) of the ministry told the Dhaka Tribune that the promotion appeared on seniority and experience.