CITU warns of stir over Health Department policies

CITU Kollam territory committee has announced plans to motorboat a large agitation against the Health Department, protesting what it presumption arsenic unjustified transfers, governmental appointments, and threats to terminate long-serving impermanent employees.  The national powerfully urged the State authorities to instantly halt retaliatory measures that shatter the morale of healthcare workers, particularly astatine a clip erstwhile infectious diseases are rapidly spreading crossed Kerala. The national demanded that the authorities physique spot and determination guardant collectively alternatively than intimidating impermanent unit moving nether the National Health Mission (NHM) and Hospital Management Committees (HMC), who person dedicated years to the healthcare sector. “These healthcare professionals were the backbone of Kerala’s resilience during large crises similar COVID-19, Nipah outbreaks, floods, and Ockhi. The unified tone shown by the government, employees, and the nationalist during those trying times remains a exemplary for everyone, but the morale of the precise unit who elevated Kerala’s healthcare to planetary standards is present severely breached owed to unfair absorption practices,” said the leadership.  They added that Ministers and ruling enactment leaders inactive look to beryllium caught up successful post-election triumph celebrations alternatively of addressing pressing nationalist wellness needs. “Kollam District Hospital is presently functioning without capable doctors and has nary unit disposable to behaviour post-mortem examinations, they said.

Published - June 14, 2026 08:23 p.m. IST