GUWAHATI: The Gauhati High Court has directed the state government to submit a report on detail two weeks concerning the steps taken by the authorities or the steps it proposes to take to guarantee the protection of physicians and frontline medical employees.
The Annals of Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak handed the order on Monday carrying suo motu cognizance of their issues raised in a request concerning the protection of physicians and frontline health workers.
Aside from the concern with physicians and paramedics, the PIL touches in an episode, where a physician had been manhandled and beaten up by a mob in the Udali Model Hospital at Assam’s Hojai district after the passing of a Covid-19 patient on June 1.
There’s also a prayer in the request that appropriate steps be taken from the country to ensure that such incidents don’t happen in future.
Throughout the hearing, the state authorities told that a number of 24 individuals are detained in relation to the attack case in Hojai and sent to prosecution.
The state government said it’s attentive to the maintenance it must present its physicians and paramedics and has been open to some proposals and recommendations in this respect because it’s a public interest lawsuit.
The correspondence request was registered by Sneha Kalita, urge on report, Supreme Court, on June 2.
She explained,”It was a movement looking for protection of those physicians and frontline healthcare workers.
The safety process is quite week in hospitals from the nation.
Many episodes of assault on physicians and frontline health workers occur in distant areas due to poor accessibility to authorities and these instances go unreported.
To reinforce security at medical schools and health centers is that which we need for the security of frontline health personnel.
Thus, we’ve registered this letter request along with the High Court has taken suo motu cognizance of it and handled it PIL.” She said they have made several different prayers, for example installment of notice boards at sizeand warning signs and help desk in every hospital and health center.
“We prayed the high court directs the state authorities for the setup of warnings in hospitals and health centers conveying messages and others to not display any type of violence against the medical fraternity in addition to healthcare employees,” she explained.