Govt. hospitals will get new staff pattern, says Keralam Health Minister K. Muraleedharan

The State government will revise the staff pattern in all government hospitals, from primary health centres to medical colleges, Health and Devaswom Minister K. Muraleedharan said on Thursday.

He was inaugurating a range of development projects worth ₹16 crore and launching new services at Government Medical College, Thrissur, completed as part of the State government’s 100-day action programme. “The existing staff pattern is based on norms from the 1960s,” the Minister said, adding that efforts were now under way to recruit more doctors.

He also said that the shortage of medicines in government hospitals would be resolved this month. “Patients should not be made to suffer because of a lack of medicines. The government is committed to ensuring better facilities in public hospitals, which remain a major source of health care for ordinary people.”