Mangaluru Association of Medical Consultants supports police action inside Hospital
Says those who were in the hospital were 'anti-social elements'
Mangaluru : Association of Medical Consultants, Mangalore (AMC) has sided with the local police in the city after Indian Medical Association (IMA) condemned the incident wherein the police barged into a local hospital on December 19 and ransacked the corridors of the hospital including the door of an ICU.
Dr. Santanu Sen, National President of IMA, issued a press release on Sunday condemning the incidents of police action and reports of denial of access to medical care to the injured protesters. The press release mentioned that the police barged into the ICU, clearly indicating the release was in reference to the incident reported from a hospital in Mangaluru.
The press release from the IMA asserted that it was a “new low in civic life of the nation” and “a clear indication of the new truth and the new standards”.
“IMA stands up for retaining hospitals as safe zones. All violence are unacceptable especially those perpetrated by the State on the people who require medical attention and care. Everyone should feel comfortable in the hands that heal. Indian Doctors will never let down whoever requires care. No politics can dilute this resolve” the press statement from IMA headquarters had stated.
Although the media release did not name Highland Hospital and the December 19 incident of Mangaluru at the Highland Hospital, it mentioned the barging of police department in ICU clearly indicating it’s reference to the Highland Hospital incident. CCTV footage of Highland hospital was doing rounds on social media platforms from Thursday showing police barging into hospital and trying to break open the door of ICU.
AMC in a press release rejected the reports and added that it was unacceptable as the release by National IMA from Delhi condemned the incidents of violence in general across the country and not any specific incident.
“Very surprising is a reference in the news reports, to such a specific incident in Highland Hospital Mangalore on December 19, even though the media release by National IMA from Delhi condemned the incidents of violence in general across the country and not any specific incident” AMC’s press statement stated.
“AMC Mangalore, condemns any violence means of protest, including those from within Highland Hospital during the said incident and violent attacks on a police station in the city earlier in the day, which eventually resulted in a tense situation leading to curfew. These misguided anti-social elements resorting to violence against the police are often the same people who create nuisances in the Hospital and interference in duty of Doctors for providing medical treatment” it further added.
The Association also sided with the police’s version of the story and added police entered the hospital to tackle 'miscreants who create Law and Order issues on the street but had entered hospital to hide'. It also denied reports claiming police action amounted to a denial of healthcare access to the needy.
“We Doctors often take help of police when there are incidents of abuse/violence in Hospitals and police have promptly brought the situation under control. How is it any different when the same police enter the hospital to tackle miscreants who create Law and Order issues on the street but had entered hospital to hide? We strongly deny any allegation that police actions amount to denial of healthcare access to the needy. In fact, on our inquiry at the incident site, no interference was reported. To further condemn the violence by police personnel on patients by the media reports, is highly unacceptable, as nothing close to this has happened at all. There is no complaint either by the hospital owners, Doctors” the release added.
Dr. Yusuf Kumble, noted cardiologist of the city and MD of Indiana Hospital Mangaluru, who is also an executive committee member of AMC differed with the view and facts expressed by the association and claimed that the committee was not considered before issuing the press release.
Dr. Yusuf Kumble, when contacted by Vartha Bharati voiced his dissent over the press release and added the press release over the issue was not right. He also claimed he was not consulted before issuing the press statement.
Dr. Kumble also noted that he has brought his views and differences over the statement to the notice of the association while also adding that he does not deny the police atrocities at the highland hospital on December 19.
“There are enough evidence to establish the fact that the police barged into the hospital and ransacked the corridors and ICU. There is no denial that the police carried atrocities inside hospital premises. We as a body cannot decide if those present in the hospital when police barged in, were anti-social elements” Dr. Kumble told Vartha Bharati.
Dr. Kumble further added that the body cannot zero-in on people and label them as 'those who often create nuisances at the hospitals'.
“We cannot point at people and say these are the people who often creates nuisances at the hospitals. We also cannot side with the police and say whatever they did was right, we cannot give clean chit to the personnel for what they did on December 19, evening. An inquiry into the matter will reveal details and facts about the incident and it is the job of judiciary to give clean chit to the cops, not us. I have brought all these points to the notice of the association” Dr. Kumble added.
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Standoff between Delhi, Shimla police after arrest of 3 Youth Congress activists
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Shimla/New Delhi (PTI): In an ugly face-off, Himachal Pradesh police on Wednesday registered a kidnapping case against Delhi police personnel and "detained" their vehicles at the Shogi border near Shimla when they were heading back to the national capital with three Youth Congress members arrested in connection with the "shirtless protest" at the AI Summit.
"A case has been registered against 15-20 unknown people in plain clothes for forcibly taking three people staying in a resort in Rohru. They also took the CCTV installed in the resort with them and did not give any receipt," a statement issued by the Shimla police said.
The Delhi police had earlier on Wednesday said it had arrested three Youth Congress activists in connection with the February 20 protest at AI Impact Summit from a hotel in Chirgaon area of Rohru subdivision of Himachal's Shimla district.
Saurabh, Siddharth and Arbaz were apprehended by the Special Cell of Delhi Police. They were produced before a local court, which granted transit remand to enable the police to bring them to Delhi for further questioning, an official of the Delhi police said in the national capital.
Himachal Police sources claimed they intercepted three vehicles in Shimla and Solan districts and brought them back to Shimla as the Delhi police had not taken transit remand.
Both the Shimla police and the Delhi police accused each other of hampering the investigation.
The sources in Himachal Pradesh police claimed the team from Delhi carried out the operation in Shimla without informing the local police.
Acting on this, Himachal Pradesh police intercepted three vehicles carrying the accused -- who are reportedly not residents of Himachal Pradesh -- and Delhi Police personnel.
Two vehicles were stopped in Shimla, while the third was intercepted near Dharampur in Solan district. Around 20 people, including police personnel, were detained, the source said.
The Delhi police personnel again tried to leave for the national capital but were intercepted at Shogi border on Wednesday night on the road to Chandigarh and not allowed to leave.
In a video that appeared from the Shogi border in the suburbs of Shimla city, the Delhi police officers were heard saying that they had arrested three people in the morning in connection with an FIR registered on February 20.
VIDEO | Shimla: A jurisdiction dispute has erupted after the Delhi Police detained three Youth Congress workers in connection with an AI Summit protest pic.twitter.com/H7o7eaYOb8
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"We have to produce the accused arrested at 5 am today in the court in 24 hours, and you have stopped us after registering an FIR at 8 pm," an officer of the Delhi police said.
However, the Shimla police officers maintained that a case of abduction has been registered and the Delhi police is hampering the investigation.
They alleged that the Delhi police carried out an illegal operation at Rohru without informing the local police and no papers of arrest were shown.
"I asked you for a legal document in the morning, but neither have you shown any document nor the FIR number and nor have you taken the transit remand," the officer of Shimla police is heard saying.
The "shirtless" protest at Bharat Mandapam on February 20 had triggered a major security response, with police earlier invoking charges including rioting and promoting enmity under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Indian Youth Congress president Uday Bhanu Chib and former national spokesperson Bhudev Sharma were arrested in connection with the case on Tuesday. Both were produced before a Delhi court and remanded to police custody for interrogation.
According to the Delhi police, a total of 11 people have been arrested so far.
Earlier, on Saturday midnight, Delhi Police had raided Himachal Sadan in the national capital amid reports that Youth Congress workers who had participated in the protest were provided accommodation there.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu had termed the action "unfortunate and against constitutional procedure".
A Delhi court on Wednesday extended by four days the police custody of five of the arrested in the case.
Arguing that the incident was not spontaneous but executed after prior planning, the Delhi police said that the initial probe revealed structured allocation of roles, concealment tactics and coordinated post-incident movement.
It, however, said that the entire conspiracy, including its hierarchy, funding and inter-state coordination, needed to be unearthed.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Mridul Gupta extended the custodial interrogation of the accused -- Krishna Hari, national secretary of the Youth Congress from Bihar; Kundan Yadav, state general secretary of Bihar; Ajay Kumar Singh, state vice-president of eastern Uttar Pradesh; and Narasimha Yadav, national coordinator of IYC from Telangana.
Meanwhile, the Delhi police on Wednesday denied permission to the Delhi Youth Congress to hold a dharna at Jantar Mantar in national capital on February 26, citing short notice and prevailing law and order concerns.
The Delhi Youth Congress had called the dharna on Thursday against the police action on IYC members who had taken part in the February 20 protest.
