Medical College faculty members protest mass transfer decision
The HinduThe Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association has demanded that the “unscientific” mass transfer of medical college faculty to the new Government Medical Colleges of Wayanad and Kasaragod, on the eve of an inspection by the Kerala University of Health Sciences, be withdrawn. The KGMCTA pointed out that the enmasse transfer was effected so that the new Medical Colleges of Wayanad and Kasaragod would meet the faculty requirements set by the National Medical Commission, when KUHS conducts the inspection. They pointed out that the government, instead of creating adequate faculty posts in new medical colleges, was resorting to its usual tactics of transferring faculty from one institution to the other to somehow clear NMC norms and that this was totally unacceptable. It said that none of the Medical Colleges in the State had adequate faculty for teaching and patient care and that the government should be creating new posts instead of upsetting patient care in hospitals.