While employees at the Government Medical College, Ernakulam, are looking forward to the second phase of integration into the Directorate of Medical Education, they are equally worried that the process could be derailed due to petty politics.
Though Medical College principal Ashwini Kumar refused to comment on politics, he said the last phase of the integration would take a maximum of two weeks. The second phase of integration would involve verification of the qualifications of the people on contract and daily wages.
The Principal will also take up the issue of filling up vacancies for senior and junior residents as the working of the medical college hospital was affected by the exodus of a number of doctors.
The faculty and non-teaching staff are however anxious about a rumour that the Principal of the institution would be transferred allegedly due to a tiff between the Principal and another member of the hospital authority.
G. Unnikrishnan, the secretary of the Cochin Medical College Teachers Association, said the members of the association had already informed the government that any such move would derail the ongoing staff integration process. He said the process of bringing the medical college on par with other medical colleges in the State was a laborious one, and most of the staff members had been cooperating with the procedure. It had taken more than one-and-a-half years for the government to set the process in motion, and a newcomer would be stumped by the difficult process of integration.
