For the past several days, the WhatsApp profile picture of many doctors and consultants in Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) Thiruvananthapuram reads: “Save RCC”.
The message, which has purportedly gone viral on social media, is a genuine cry for help and a silent protest at the manner in which Regional Cancer Centre, the oldest cancer care institute in Kerala’s public sector and one that has championed high-end, affordable cancer care for four decades, is being allowed to sink into oblivion, doctors at the RCC said.
“Until a few years ago, we were at the top of the game. But today, discontent and frustration are brewing within the RCC because of the administration’s total disregard for many of our genuine and long-standing concerns. Even doctors who had long been part of the institution are quitting, because they see a bleak future for themselves and the organisation,” a senior doctor at the RCC told The Hindu. Interestingly, none who left were even asked why they were leaving, they were just let go, he said
