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Medical assemblage doctors crossed the State intensified their agitation by launching an indefinite boycott of outpatient services and world activities successful each Government Medical Colleges from Monday.
The agitation, which commenced connected July 1, 2025, raising assorted respective demands including the contiguous disbursement of long-pending wage revision arrears, revision of unscientific pension ceiling, instauration of module posts successful proportionality to expanding diligent load successful aesculapian colleges, and betterment of basal infrastructure, does not look to person reached anyplace adjacent though Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association (KGMCTA) held respective rounds of talks with the government
In a connection here, KGMCTA said that portion the partial rectification of wage disparities astatine the introduction cadre level has provided immoderate relief, different large demands, particularly the wage revision arrears owed from 2016, stay unaddressed..
Patients queue up astatine OPD counters of Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital connected Monday during the indefinite onslaught by authorities aesculapian assemblage doctors successful State. | Photo Credit: NIRMAL HARINDRAN
KGMCTA pointed retired that though the authorities announced afloat wage revision arrears to different State authorities employees, aesculapian assemblage doctors person been wholly excluded and that the doctors were near with nary enactment but to intensify their agitation.
Doctors person been connected a non-cooperation strike, and for the past 21 days, the module members person been connected a relay hunger onslaught successful the capital.
On Monday, elder module members remained wholly distant from OP clinics, which were handled by postgraduate medicos and location surgeons.
Doctors said that indispensable aesculapian services – exigency care, labour rooms, exigency surgeries, ICUs, post-mortem examinations, and urgent laboratory services – person been exempted from the agitation.
As portion of the agitation, protestation marches and dharnas were held astatine each aesculapian colleges.
KGMCTA stated that unless the authorities takes proactive steps to resoluteness the stalemate, doctors volition suspend each non-emergency surgeries and different elective procedures indefinitely starting February 19. From February 26 onwards, members volition retreat from each examination-related duties.
