Pro-Left staff unions in Health dept. in Kozhikode seek steps to fill vacancies
Pro-Left staff unions in Kozhikode are demanding that the government fill numerous vacancies in the Health department. They claim that the lack of staff, including nurses and lab technicians, is severely impacting hospital operations and medicine distribution.
Why it matters
Staff shortages in public healthcare systems directly affect the quality and accessibility of medical services for the general population.
Functionaries of pro-Left staff unions in Kozhikode have sought urgent steps to fill vacancies in the Health department, because of which, they claimed, the functioning of government hospitals has been affected.
According to leaders of the Kerala NGO Union and the Kerala Government Officers’ Association (KGOA), posts such as field worker, junior health inspector grade I, health inspector, health supervisor, public health nurse, public health nurse supervisor, technical assistant grade I, technical assistant grade II, malaria officer, and biologist in the district vector control unit have remained vacant since May after retirement of the incumbent staff.
KGOA State vice-president P.P. Sudhakaran says that no steps have been taken to prepare a list of senior staff who can be promoted to these posts. In healthcare institutions, posts such as district lab officer, chief lab technician, junior scientific officer, and senior scientific officer too are vacant.
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