GUWAHATI: The Assam government has flexed the principle of compulsory one-year rural posting from the event of Dr Seuj Kumar Senapati, the on-duty physician who had been attacked in a Covid Care Centre (CCC) at Assam’s Hojai district lately.
After assembly Senapati, who’s undergoing therapy in the Gauhati Medical College Hospital here on Saturday, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the wounded physician will likely get posted where he selects later he recovers.
“Hopefully he’ll be discharged from hospital two or three days.
Dr Senapati is going to be provided a selection of the location of his posting once which he resumes work,” explained Sarma, who listened with the physician’s mom and other relatives.
Sarma said the state authorities stands strongly from both sides of Dr Senapati and most of doctors that are serving society dedicatedly in the right time of this pandemic.
“Physicians, paramedics and most medical workers have put an example of devotion and devotion through their customer support in the battle against Covid-19 plus they need to be shown that they deserve,” he explained.
He cautioned miscreants and stated that anybody attacking doctors will be handled firmly.
“Strict action will be accepted according to the law against the perpetrators and attackers on physicians and medical personnel,” Sarma claimed.
Two more individuals, accused of attacking Senapati, were apprehended by the authorities on Saturday.
For this, a complete 28 individuals have been detained in relation to the assault on Dr Senapati, a young physician who had been brutally attacked by the family of an Covid patient afterwards he expired at a CCC in Udali at the fundamental Assam district Tuesday.
They vented their ire on him however he hadn’t treated the individual and had only come in to his change .
A delegation of the Assam state branch of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) fulfilled Sarma in his workplace at Janata Bhawan after in the afternoon and discussed many issues regarding the welfare of physicians, especially their security when they’re on duty.
The delegation handed on a nine-point charter of demands to the ministry.
Sarma ensured all steps for the safety of the health care professionals.
The IMA’s country division, while requiring instant arrangement of armed safety in most government hospitals and healthcare facilities, for example CCCs, insisted upon the installation of CCTVs in most hospitals.
“A Healthcare Establishments Security Force could be built below the Chief Minister’s 1 lakh project strategy.
The Assam Medicare Service Persons & Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence & Damage to Real Estate ) Act 2011 ought to be formatted to add stricter provisions such as: (a) Imprisonment around ten years (b) Fine up to Rs 5 lakh (c) Present on fast track basis, certainty in 6 weeks,” read the memorandum.
The medico body advocated that the authorities that the amount of individual attendants must be rigorously controlled in doctors.
“All sensitive regions in the country, having a background of violence in medical institutions, on physicians and authorities servants, ought to be recognized and no youthful and recently passed out physician ought to be published in these regions alone (with no senior physician offering cover all of the time) underneath the’Rural Posting’ duty,” said IMA condition president Dr Satyajit Borah and Immunology condition secretary Dr Sikha Sarma.