KOCHI: Even as the daily caseload of COVID-19 has crossed 7000 mark in Kerala with spiralling virus transmission graph, the government doctors in the state are all set to launch open agitation. The protest is against the state government’s decision to continue withholding the salary of government employees including those in healthcare sectors for six more months.
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers in the government sector who have been relentlessly fighting against COVID-19 are disheartened by the decision to continue deferment of salary.
Healthcare workers are forced to work for extended hours with limited resources in the fight against the pandemic for more than six months. While healthcare workers are given additional benefits in other parts of the world during the pandemic, the Kerala government has cut even their salary, alleged the Kerala Government…