New Delhi: Expressing anguish over the Kolkata rape-murder incident, over 70 Padma awardee medical doctors have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding fast enactment of a particular legislation to cope with violence in opposition to healthcare personnel and implementation of improved security protocols in medical services.
The famend medical doctors like Ashok Vaid, Harsh Mahajan, Anoop Misra, A Ok Grover, Alka Kriplani and Mohsin Wali have sought PM Modi’s “rapid and private intervention” to handle the “alarming” scenario and recommended that the Centre carry an ordinance instantly to make sure the “harshest potential punishment” to those that take pleasure in violence in opposition to healthcare staff, whether or not verbal or bodily.
There have been widespread protests by healthcare personnel and others following the alleged rape and homicide of a girl trainee physician on the state-run R G Kar Medical School and Hospital and claims of a botched-up investigation and cover-up. The Indian Medical Affiliation (IMA) and different medical doctors’ our bodies are urgent for a central legislation to make sure the protection of medics.
The eminent medical doctors additionally urged stricter enforcement of current legal guidelines and enhanced security measures in hospitals and medical establishments.
Amongst those that have written the letter are former Director Basic of ICMR Dr Balram Bhargav, former AIIMS Delhi Director Dr Randeep Guleria and Dr S Ok Sarin, Director of Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, “We, the Padma Awardee medical doctors, write to you with deep concern and profound anguish relating to the horrific occasions that just lately occurred at RG Kar Medical School in Kolkata. As the top of our nation, we implore your rapid and private intervention to handle this alarming scenario,” the letter mentioned.
They mentioned such acts of brutality shake the very foundations of service by medical professionals and spotlight the pressing want to handle violence, significantly in opposition to ladies, women, and healthcare professionals.
“We stand in unwavering solidarity with the sufferer’s household, whose ache and loss are unimaginable. We additionally lengthen our full help to the medical group, who’re more and more confronting such violence in the middle of their work. The security and dignity of healthcare professionals have to be safeguarded with utmost precedence,” the letter mentioned.
The medical doctors acknowledged that stronger measures are desperately wanted to forestall such atrocities.
“We name upon legislation enforcement businesses, policymakers, and society at giant to take rapid and decisive motion,” the letter mentioned.
The medical doctors emphasised the necessity for legislation enforcement businesses to extra rigorously apply present authorized frameworks to guard healthcare professionals and advocated for extreme and swift penalties to function a deterrent in opposition to such crimes.
The letter urges the federal government to implement improved security protocols inside healthcare services to make sure a safe working atmosphere for all medical employees.
“We urge the central and state governments to rapidly enact and implement a separate legislation for the safety of healthcare staff, making certain its speedy enforcement on the bottom,” the letter mentioned.
“A proposed invoice, The Prevention of Violence Towards Docs, Medical Professionals and Medical Establishments Invoice, has been prepared since 2019 however has not but been tabled in Parliament for passage and adoption.
“We strongly consider that an ordinance to this impact will be introduced instantly, and the invoice needs to be handed post-haste so that each one these working in healthcare supply methods within the nation can work with out concern, in service of struggling sufferers,” the letter mentioned.
The medical doctors additionally pressured that the proposed ordinance/invoice ought to make sure that the harshest potential punishment is given to those that take pleasure in violence in opposition to healthcare staff, whether or not verbal or bodily.
Such instances needs to be resolved swiftly by the judiciary, with offences categorised as non-bailable.
“Let this tragedy function a catalyst for actual, lasting change. We earnestly attraction to you thru this letter to safeguard the medical career in opposition to bodily assaults and defacement of the dignity and respect of all healthcare staff,” the letter mentioned.
“We owe it to the late Nirbhaya, and to all victims of sexual violence, and to future generations to create a society the place such horrors are unthinkable” the medical doctors mentioned, expressing hope for a fast and decisive motion.
The awardee medical doctors embrace Radiologist and Founder and Managing Director of Mahajan Imaging Dr Harsh Mahajan, Dr Nikhil Tandon, head of the division of endocrinology at AIIMS, Delhi, Dr D S Rana, Chairman of the Division of Nephrology at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Dr Dr Sandeep Guleria, Transplant Specialist Surgeon.
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