Converting primary health centres into community health centres with the staff appointed on temporary basis would be disastrous and would defeat the purpose of health care system, they said. Without adequate infrastructure facilities at the government-run hospitals, the KGMOA leaders said, the evening OP clinics would remain non-functional. Only a single doctor has to man a clinic in a State that has nearly 650 primary health centres. Besides, the manpower was limited at many of the community health centres and taluk hospitals. The doctors have already started an indefinite protest from Friday and they attended only emergency cases in casualty.
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