Kerala Government Medical Officers’ Association (KGMOA), has protested against the inordinate delay in settling the service matters of Government doctors, including the appointment of the Director of Health Services as well as the filling of various vacancies in State Health Services.
In a statement here, KGMOA pointed out that the only category of Government servants, whose time-bound promotion has not been implemented, is that of Government doctors, because of which several posts have been lying vacant. Since the past one year, the posts of the DHS, Chief Consultant (HG) as well as some 170-odd posts including that of Assistant Surgeons have been lying vacant all across districts .
In a department which continues to be acutely short of human resources, these long term vacancies are creating huge issues, KGMOA pointed out.
Annual general transfers are a regular and just requirement of all Government servants. Yet, in the Health department, the annual general transfer of 2021 is pending. The draft list of the annual general transfers, which should have taken place in March-April last year, was published only in January this year. The final list has not been published even at the end of March, it pointed out.
KGMOA also pointed to the difficulties in fulfilling administrative matters on time in the DHS, because of the non-implementation of e-office systems. Not just the Health department employees, even the public were being put to much difficulties because of this. Many requirements of doctors such as service regularisation, police verification, probation completion were all getting delayed because of the lack of e-office facilitation
KGMOA has been raising these matters with the Government for a long time, to no avail, the statement issued by KGMOA said.
