The Govt. Medical College Hospital, Ernakulam has 31 vacant posts of doctors out of the current sanctioned strength of 170 doctors in various departments, as per the reply received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
The current strength is 139 against the 170 sanctioned posts across 26 departments. The Department of General Medicine has the highest gap of six vacant posts. The current strength of doctors in the department is 14 against the sanctioned strength of 20, as per the information provided by the Public Information Officer in response to a query filed by Raju Vazhakkala, RTI activist.