Faculty members at the Government Medical College here have demanded that the government drop the move to transfer a section of them to new medical colleges.
They took out a march and formed a human chain on Monday raising this demand. The Kozhikode unit of the Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association said there was a move to shift around 50 doctors from the medical college.
Secretary of the association’s Kozhikode unit Karunan Kannampoyilil said the plan was to shift the doctors to medical colleges in Idukki, Manjeri and other places where new colleges were coming up. This would affect the academics at the medical college here and patient care at the hospital attached to it, he said.
“There are 386 faculty members in more than 25 departments. Of these, only 100 have more than 20 years of experience. Most of the doctors intended to be transferred are experienced faculty. Shifting them will adversely impact medical teaching and patient care at the medical college here,” he said.
Dr. Kannampoylil said the government should look at promoting eligible faculty members and posting them in the new colleges instead of displacing experienced professors and associate professors.
