Kerala Medical Teachers Protest Against Mass Transfer Before University Inspection

Thiruvananthapuram: Medical teachers belonging to Government Medical Colleges in Kerala are protesting against the mass transfer of medical college faculties to the newly set up Government Medical Colleges of Wayanad and Kasaragod, just before the inspection by the Kerala University of Health Sciences (KUHS).

Terming such a transfer order as "unscientific", the doctors under the Kerala Government Medical College Teachers' Association (KGMCTA) have demanded that the order should be withdrawn by the Government.

The response from the doctors after the Director of Medical Education (DME) transferred altogether 71 faculties from Manjeri, Thrissur, Kozhikode, and Thiruvananthapuram Medical Colleges to the new medical colleges in Wayanad and Kasaragod. In the DME order, the doctors were asked to join the respective institutes the very next day.

Highlighting that this was not the first time that the Government, as a temporary measure, was transferring faculties to meet the shortage, KGMCTA further pointed out that even the faculties who had been transferred only a year ago as part of general transfers have also been transferred this time. As per the association, such repeated transfer order were bound to upset the personal affairs of the doctors.