PG students at Kozhikode MCH object to e-Sanjeevani work

‘Common people are denied the service of senior doctors’

Medical postgraduate students at Government Medical College Hospital, (MCH) Kozhikode, have sought changes in the duty list prepared for e-Sanjeevani, the tele-consultation project launched by the Health Department, for people who cannot reach the hospital due to the pandemic. According to the functionaries of the Calicut chapter of the Kerala Medical Postgraduates Association (KMPGA), senior doctors normally handle the outpatient services at the MCH. e-Sanjeevani is to help people get OP services without coming to the institution. The order issued by the Director of Medical Education had specified that doctors who cannot be on COVID duty due to health reasons or others can be assigned the tele-consultation project. However, M.V. Amish Rahi and M.C. Adeebu Zaman, KMPGA leaders, said postgraduate students were being assigned this duty now. This was happening at a time when their academic work had been halted with most of the medical teachers being busy.