Kerala Medical Teachers threaten to limit patient care over pay arrears, transfer delays, faculty shortage
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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala government medical college teachers have demanded a prompt solution for the long-standing issues faced by them, warning to limit their patient care services if the Government does not resolve those concerns.
The Central Executive Committee of Kerala Government Medical College Teachers' Association (KGMCTA) recently discussed the issues faced by the faculty in Government Medical College Hospitals (MCH) during its meeting at Thrissur.
During the meeting, the Head of Urology Department at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital, Harris Chirackal, highlighted some issues, and the meeting declared solidarity with Dr. Harris, stating that those problems were common to all MCHs across the State.
Demanding an immediate solution from the Government regarding the deficiencies and basic facilities, KGMCTA also decided that the doctors would have to limit the patient care services to the extent that the limited resources would permit if the Government was unwilling to resolve the issues.
The Association also decided during the meeting to inform about their decision to the Government in writing.
As per the latest media report by The Hindu, among other issues, KGMCTA highlighted that the Government was yet to give a favourable response regarding the anomalies in the pay revision of MCH doctors and pointed out that the pay revision arrears of the faculty from 2016 to 2020 also remain unpaid.
Apart from this, they also pointed out that the pay of doctors at the entry-level cadre got slashed, and it still remains an unresolved issue. The association also resolved to intervene for the immediate resolution of delays related to the 2025 general transfer process.
The meeting demanded that the doctors, who were redeployed to Wayanad and Kasaragod to secure the approval of the National Medical Commission (NMC) for the new MCHs, be brought back now.
Further, the association pointed out that unless the government created sufficient faculty and non-faculty posts in these institutes and filled them, the functioning of other MCHs are also going to get affected.
Therefore, the Central Executive Committee of KGMCTA decided to formally inform the Government that no new MCHs should be started without first ensuring that adequate human resources were available in the medical colleges.
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