Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 22: Expressing its anguish over the repeated violence against the doctors and paramedics during the lockdown period and day to day working, Jammu Doctors Forum (JDF) has demanded a stringent law against assault on doctors and paramedics.
JDF members said that it was expected from the Government to take the concrete steps towards this direction while framing and constituting National Medical Commission (NMC) but despite assurances given by the Union Health Ministry, the things remained in liquidity. All these assurances started with a bang and ended into a whimper as all lost in files of bureaucratic maneuvers, they added.
The Forum impressed upon the authorities for categorizing the medical services with those wherein the assault on them is to be treated as a non-bailable offense, as all the previous attempts could not bring forth a suitable and fruitful result.
“Now the country is fighting against the worldwide pandemic disease of Coronavirus. The doctors along with other paramedics, cleaning personnel and security men are working as warriors, who have to remain on the forefront. The medical community is vulnerable not only getting a dreadful infection from the patients due to close contact but also subjected to the ill-treatment by the some arrogant, rude, uncivilized and disrespectful people of the society. There are many examples where the medical community has faced mob lynching and has seen even their virtual death,” the Forum said.
The Forum impressed upon the Government to pass an ordinance urgently for making the law for the deterrence of assault on the health warriors.
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