KERALA MEDICAL COLLEGES FILLED WITH GREY HAIRED DOCTORS

 Kerala Govt Medical College Teachers' Association had held a march recently to the DME - Directorate of Medical Education - Ofiice.  

Dr.C.H.Haris, head of the depth. of Urology addressed the gathering.

1. Kerala Medical Colleges are becoming Old Age homes filled with grey haired doctors.

2. The Urology dept of Trivandrum Medical College will have to be closed down after 5 to 6 years.

3. The Urology dept of Trichur Medical College is in a state of closure. The lone doctor who was there has been transferred to Ernakulam Medical College on promotion. The dept of Urology functions at Trichur Medical College by keeping the same doctor at Trichur on a part time basis. How can the dept function when it needs a minimum 5 to 6 doctors to attend to the 200 patients per day at the OP?

4.There are no senior doctors to oversee the patients after surgery. Resident doctors alone are there to manage such patients.

5. The standard of the Hospital could be elevated only if more senior doctors are available

6.There are no doctors appearing for PSC interviews for appointment in the Urology dept. Last year there were only 9 applicants who had appeared for the interview. They were all appointed without troubling them with questions. But 8 of them did not join.

7. The reason for that was the private hospitals where they worked had doubled their salary package.

8. The problems at the entry point of Govt. Doctors will have to be resolved.

9. If we put together a hastily arranged mechanism now, after 5 years we would have substandard doctors alone to look after us.   

10. People will then be getting nothing but substandard treatment.

11. Is it enough, is our question.

12. If educating the students abroad for their medical degree is the solution, our experience is that many such degree holders are unaware of the basics.

Malayala Manorama of 24thSeptember2025