Overview
- The Kerala Government Medical College Teachers Association will boycott all teaching activities starting January 13.
- From the following week, doctors will suspend non-emergency services while keeping casualty, labour rooms, ICUs, emergency surgeries and postmortems running.
- A protest dharna is scheduled outside the Kerala Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram on January 19.
- Demands include rectifying pay-revision anomalies, releasing salary and DA arrears pending since 2016, creating adequate faculty posts, limiting temporary and mass transfers, and improving facilities.
- Leaders say assurances given after a November 10 meeting with Health Minister Veena George were not implemented, and that work-to-rule and non-cooperation will continue alongside the strike.