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The District Development Committee (DDC) gathering has raised a request to capable the shortage of specializer doctors successful Malappuram.
MLAs P. Abdul Hameed and Kurukkoli Moideen made the request astatine the gathering presided implicit by District Collector V.R. Vinod present connected Tuesday.
While the Health section sanctioned 202 superspecialty and specialty posts for district, wide and taluk hospitals crossed the State, Malappuram territory got conscionable 4 posts.
The MLAs argued that it was unfair and discriminatory towards the largest populated territory successful the State. They said organisation of speciality and superspeciality doctors should beryllium equitable and fair.
District Medical Officer (DMO) T.K. Jayanthy said that a connection had been sent to the authorities for creating 595 doc posts successful antithetic hospitals successful the district. The Collector suggested that the connection beryllium followed up done the Health department.
Mr. Moideen, Tirur MLA, pointed retired that crab patients astatine the Tirur District Hospital were facing delays successful receiving medicines, and that, contempt making payments, medicines were not being supplied by Kerala Medical Services Corporation Limited (KMSCL). In response, the District Collector directed the DMO to coordinate with KMSCL and find a solution to the issue.
Dr. Jayanthy said that crab OP and chemotherapy services were being provided astatine the Tirur District Hospital connected each days but Sundays. She explained that owed to a shortage of doctors successful the hospital’s oncology department, services specified arsenic mammography and chemotherapy were being offered lone connected alternate days.
