HUBBALLI: Within the previous 15 weeks, there were 60 attacks on physicians of which barely 10 percent of those cases are reported and FIRs registered at police stations, based on Dr Ganesh Prasad Mudraje, chairman, harassment poll, Indian Medical Association, Karnataka division.
“It’s ironic that despite being a regulation to act hard against criminals who assault doctors and vandalise hospitals, even in Karnataka barely some circumstances become enrolled while the remainder with compromise,” he explained.
“Over 100 physicians have now lost their lives through Covid-19 and several other people are infected.
Currently physicians are mad about the problem from the nation and there’s a demand for a fundamental law,” he added.
Taking a look at the strikes, physicians have launched a campaign looking for a strict law to penalize criminals who assault practicing nurses and physicians.
They’ve encouraged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to produce a conducive setting for physicians and physicians, who are serving Covid patients, also to operate in hospitals.
At a movie, senior doctor and former chairman of Association of Physicians of India, Karnataka Chapter, Dr GB Sattur, maintains that over 300 episodes of attacks doctors are reported in 2020, however, just a couple offenders were penalized.
Dr Sattur told TOI,”Physicians are afraid to operate openly now stressing attacks.
According to a survey achieved by IMA, these events have gone up from 50 to 70 percent in the past five decades.
Of these, regrettably only 40% have reported.
And 62 percent of those physicians are operating under stress because of a fear of strikes by individuals’ attenders and family.” He explained if episodes of attacks continue rising, it is going to impact medical tourism into the nation.
“PM Modi ought to consider this problem and bring in strict legislation to punish criminals.
He must also compose an exclusive’Physicians’ Grievance Mobile’ comprising a physician from every condition, which ought to take care of the grievances of physicians including strikes,” he said.