NEW DELHI: The Resident Doctors Association of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi on April 16 has appealed to the Union home minister to implement the Health Services Personnel and Clinical Establishments Bill.

The Bill was drafted by the health ministry in December last year to check violence against doctors and health professionals was rejected by the Home Ministry.

The letter says: “In spite of the advisory by Home Ministry to ensure protection to doctors there are multiple instances of violence continuing all over the country.”

‘Emerging occupational hazard’

Stating a few recent instances which the association termed as “emerging unforeseen occupational hazard” the letter says: “We as healthcare professionals are not scared of infections as that of being assaulted by the very community we treat.”

It cites the examples of doctors and medical staff who were attacked by a mob in Moradabad on April 15; a woman doctor allegedly assaulted by patients in the surgical ward of Lok Nayak hospital treating COVID-19 patients; a postgraduate doctor at Osmania General Hospital attacked by the relatives of a suspected COVID-19 patient; police thrashing two junior doctors of AIIMS Bhopal; and the Surat doctor assaulted by patients for treating COVID -19 patient.

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