THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A group of students from Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, has come up with a rap music video capturing the emotions of an enraged medical community over the growing instances of assault on doctors.
The short video laced with stinging lyrics and titled “Dr Deivam” has garnered over 23,000 views in two days.
According to the students, this is their way of registering a strong protest.
“We were appalled at the manner in which a doctor was assaulted in Assam.
Similar attacks on doctors are reported from our state as well.
This has been happening for quite some time and sadly, people get away with it.
This is our mode of protest,” says Anantha Krishna Prasad, final year MBBS student who wrote the song’s lyrics and performed in the music video.
“We were preparing for our final MBBS exam, but we took a break from our studies and started working on it.
It took us almost two days to complete the shoot and editing,” says Prasad who is also a vocalist with the medical college band.
The one and a half minute long video, made by a few students of the 2016 and 2017 batches, was shot on the terrace of the college hostel.
They are sharing it among their peer groups and they want the message to be conveyed and circulated to everyone.
While Ambadi S Sastha and Kiran Ajith prepared the concept and made the video, Abdul Razique and Prasad crafted the sound design.
Sunudev MP and Saran Santosh were also associated with the film.
In the video, the students appeal to everyone to treat them like humans and not like God or a machine.
Protest have been brewing among the medical community against the series of attacks on doctors while being on duty.
The doctors said that no arrests have been recorded in assaults on medical professionals reported from Thrissur, Kozhikode, Palakkad, Alappuzha and Thiruvananthapuram in the past three months.
“An FIR is filed and that’s the end of it.
Nobody even takes it seriously and without exemplary punishments, medical community continues to be at risk and no one seems concerned which is at once frustrating and disappointing,” says a medical professional.