Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association (KGMCTA) has demanded that the long-standing problems faced by the faculty in Government Medical Colleges Hospitals (MCH) across the State be resolved without delay.
KGMCTA’s Central Executive Committee (CEC), which met at Thrissur recently, discussed the fall out of the issues highlighted by Harris Chirackal, the head of Urology at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital.
The meeting declared solidarity with Dr. Harris and said that the problems he had highlighted were common to all MCHs in the State.
KGMCTA also decided that if the government was not willing to resolve the deficiencies and basic facilities, the doctors would have to limit the patient care services to the extent that the limited resources will permit. The meeting decided to inform this in writing to the government.
Pending pay revision
KGMCTA pointed out that the government was yet to give a favourable response regarding the anomalies in the pay revision of MCH doctors. Also, the pay revision arrears of the faculty from 2016 to 2020 remains unpaid. Also, the pay of doctors at the entry-level cadre, which got slashed remains an unresolved issue. It 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 for the new MCHs, be brought back.
Unless the government creates sufficient faculty and non-faculty posts in these institutions and fill them, the functioning of other MCHs are also going to be affected, KGMCTA pointed out.
The CEC decided to inform the government formally that no new MCHs be started without first creating adequate human resources.
KGMCTA State president Dr. Rosenara Beegum presided over the meeting.
Published – July 14, 2025 10:28 pm IST
