The Bombay High Court said on Wednesday,”The Maharashtra government does not seem serious about protecting its doctors against the attacks by the family members of the patients”.
The deputy secretary of the Health department filed an affidavit. A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni were reviewing it. The high court gave the orders for the same on May 13. The bench asked the state government to inform the Hight Court , about the FIRs reported for the assault against the doctors. The State government should also provide the steps taken to protect them, said the bench.
A total number of 436 cases are registered across the state. But, the state failed to provide the information of the guidelines taken to prevent it.
The bench said,”This is so shocking, the one-page affidavit that has been filed. From the next time, we are not going to accept affidavits unless vetted by the government pleader. The only word we can use is pathetic. This is absolute callous. The state is not at all serious about protecting its doctors. Yet, the public expects doctors to give their all”. The bench has instructed the deputy secretary of the state health department, to file a subsidiary affidavit by the coming week. The bench also added that the affidavit should necessarily include the state’s response on how to handle such incidents and to protect the doctors and the medical staff.
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