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YSR reacts sharply to fresh attack on doctors

Lok Satta demands suspension of MIM legislator

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Friday condemned the attack on doctors of Government Maternity Hospital, Nayapul. He also said that orders for the deployment of Special Protection Force personnel at Government hospitals for the protection of the doctors were issued, according to a release from the Chief Minister’s office.

Terming the attack on doctors of the hospital as unpardonable, the Chief Minister said that appropriate action would be taken on persons who had committed the crime. He also made it clear that is no need for the Government to protect persons who perpetrated the attack on the hospital, the release said.

The Chief Minister sought to assure that all the Government hospitals would be given adequate protection to avoid such incidents in future. “The Government will act very strongly on persons who were behind the incident,” the release from CMO informed.

In the wake of these decisions, the Chief Minister has also called upon the junior doctors, senior doctors in various Government hospitals to call-off their protests.

‘Unpardonable’ attack

Meanwhile, the Lok Satta Party has demanded strong action, including suspension from the Assembly, against MIM legislator Ahmed Pasha Quadri following the attack on a woman doctor by one of his followers here on Friday.

At a press conference, party president Jayaprakash Narayan described the attack as ‘unpardonable’ after the prolonged row involving another MIM legislator in a similar incident at Niloufer Hospital recently. After the row led to a strike by junior doctors and intervention of the AP High Court, such incidents should have been avoided by the Majlis legislators, he said.

Protection

Dr. Narayan blamed ‘flaws’ in the medical delivery system and not doctors and demanded protection to them against attacks by relatives of the patients. He suggested to political parties to train their MLAs on public conduct. This was necessary keeping in view the rising trend of legislators showing scant respect for law.

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