KGMCTA to launch protests on Doctors' Day
KGMCTA also plans to launch a social media campaign on the same day to highlight their concerns.
It has demanded the immediate payment of pending salary arrears from January 2016 to September 2020 and the correction of pay revision anomalies in the entry cadre. KGMCTA pointed out that all categories of State government employees have been paid the pay revision arrears, except the medical college faculty.
It also demanded that the government take immediate steps to rectify the inadequacy of faculty posts in many government medical colleges in the State. It said that new medical colleges should be made functional only after providing adequate infrastructure and creating sufficient teaching and non-teaching posts.
The government should take steps to improve the systemic shortcomings in public sector hospitals and stop blaming doctors for all that is wrong, KGMCTA said.
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