The government is all out for increasing the pension age of doctors despite protest from the medical fraternity, who allege it as a move to help a few in the administrative wing whose tenure ends this March. Moreover, the government is for increasing the retirement age at a time hundreds of doctors are in waiting in the PSC list that has been pending for a long time.
It is learned that there is much pressure from political parties, office of the Directorate of Medical Education and Directorate of Health Services even though the health department is known to have raised certain objections. The proposal with the health department is to increase the retirement age of doctors in the DME from 60 to 63 and those with the health service from 56 to 58.
All the
major associations such as the Kerala Government Medical College Teachers
Association (KGMCTA), Junior Doctors Association (JDA), Kerala
Medical Postgraduates Association (KMPGA) and Kerala Government Medical Officers Association (KGMOA) and Kerala
Government Specialist Doctors Association (KGSDA) point out that increasing pension age
will only hamper employment opportunities.
Meanwhile
Health Minister V S Sivakumar said that no such file has come before him.
''Nothing of that such sort is being discussed now,'' he said. However, it is
known that the department has already gone ahead with the proposal under much
pressure.
Source: The newindianexpress
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