KGMOA writes to CM on health human resource shortage

KGMOA expressed apprehensions that unless the health human resource situation is managed well, the State, with close to 4.5 lakh active cases, could soon face a crisis.

Kerala Government Medical Officers’ Association has flagged the issue of acute shortage of human resources in health sector, which is posing a huge challenge to the health system’s efforts to provide proper care to patients, at a time when transmission remains high in the State and hospitals are filled to capacity. In a letter to the Chief Minister, KGMOA urged the CM to appoint more healthcare workers, including doctors, from primary health centre upwards as the health system has taken on the arduous task of caring for the burgeoning number of patients as well as non- emergencies at the same time. Most of the healthcare workers are suffering from pandemic fatigue and are living with various stress disorders and physical problems. Vaccine breakthrough infections have been rampant amongst healthcare workers in recent times in the second wave. KGMOA expressed apprehensions that unless the health human resource situation is managed well, the State, with close to 4.5 lakh active cases, could soon face a crisis.