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Doctors successful authorities aesculapian colleges crossed the State are moving towards an indefinite onslaught to protestation against the government’s continued neglect of their respective long-standing demands.
All teaching activities volition beryllium boycotted from January 13, and each non-emergency aesculapian services successful aesculapian assemblage hospitals volition beryllium discontinued from the week after.
On January 19, the Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association (KGMCTA) volition signifier a dharna successful beforehand of the Secretariat, reiterating their demands.
Essential aesculapian attraction services including casualty, labour room, ICU, in-patient care, different exigency treatments, exigency surgeries, and post-mortem examinations volition beryllium excluded from the protest, the KGMCTA said present connected Thursday.
In a connection here, the KGMCTA said that nary of the assurances fixed by the authorities truthful acold regarding the long-pending demands of doctors — rectification of anomalies successful the wage revision order, disbursement of wage and DA arrears pending since 2016, avoidance of impermanent and wide transfers, instauration of capable module posts, and capable facilities for module and patients successful aesculapian assemblage hospitals — person failed to materialise, adjacent though the doctors person been connected protestation since July 2025.
Doctors had aboriginal intensified their agitation, organising overt protestation programmes arsenic good arsenic relay boycott of outpatient services implicit respective weeks.
The KGMCTA said that adjacent though the Health Minister had convened a gathering with doctors connected November 10, and assurances had been fixed regarding the speedy redressal of the grievances raised by them, thing materialised.
It said that doctors were being forced into this onslaught and that they had nary options near earlier them but to intensify their agitation.
So far, isolated from giving assurances clip and again, determination has been nary constructive efforts connected the portion of the authorities to resoluteness the issues of doctors. Doctors volition besides proceed their work-to-rule agitation and non-cooperation with the government, KGMCTA State president Rosenara Beegum T. and General Secretary Aravind C.S., said successful the statement.
