Com K. K. Shailaja Teacher is the Minister of Health and Social Welfare[1] of Kerala state, and the current MLA of Kuthuparamba. She is also a Central Committee member of CPIM. Her leadership during the ‘Nipah’ virus outbreak in Calicut on May 2018 was lauded by everyone. The Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore honoured Shylaja for the government’s efforts in curbing the Nipah outbreak.