Indian Medical Association Demands Dispur To Effectively Enforce Laws

Indian Medical Association Demands Dispur To Effectively Enforce Laws

GUWAHATI: Close on the heels of the nation-wide strike by doctors, the Indian Medical Association has demanded Dispur to start an awareness drive on the ‘Assam Medicare Service Persons & Institutions Prevention of Violence and Damage to Properties Act, 2011’.

IMA national president Dr. Santanu Sen, in a recent letter to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, demanded effective steps for implementation of the Act to prevent an assault on doctors and their establishments in Assam.

The Assam Medicare Service Persons & Institutions Prevention of Violence and Damage to Properties Act, 2011, makes assaults and attacks on any medical practitioner a non-bailable and cognizable offense.

An office bearer of the Assam branch of IMA said that the IMA had requested Dispur to ensure proper display of salient features of the Act in government and private health care centres through posters. “Mass awareness and publicity of the Assam Medicare Service Persons & Institutions Prevention of Violence and Damage to Properties Act, 2011, will create a sense of fear among people,” he said.

IMA members while joining the all India doctors’ strike on Monday said other forms of mass media should also be used to publicize the Act to check the rising attacks on doctors and hospitals. The agitating doctors also demanded installation of CCTV cameras in all government and interior hospitals.

The IMA said a senior doctor of Dikom Tea Estate, Dibrugarh, was badly assaulted after the death of a woman working in the tea estate on May 6. “We have given an appeal to the government to publicize the Act to prevent a repeat of such attack on doctors in future,” an IMA member said.

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