Medicos to boycott emergency duties in MCHs

Medical College Principals expel junior doctors from hostels

Patient care in all Government Medical College Hospitals in the State are likely to be affected from Friday as postgraduate medical students (junior residents) have decided to go ahead with their strike, boycotting all services, including emergency services, in protest against the government’s refusal to take any concrete measures to resolve the crisis in medical colleges.

The striking doctors said that they would boycott all emergency duties, other than COVID duty from Friday. They said that by threatening them the government had made it clear that it did not intend to resolve the issues faced by the doctors.

By Friday evening, Principals of Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Thrissur and Ernakulam medical colleges issued orders expelling the striking junior doctors from PG hostels.