Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 26: The Society of Consultant Doctors (JKSCD) today demanded action against the erring policemen harassing doctors and other works on roads while it expressed deep regret over a series of unfortunate incidents taking place wherein doctors have been harassed on roads.
A statement issued here said that during the past few weeks doctors including senior doctors, paramedics and reportedly healthcare professionals of either gender have been harassed and misbehaved with by some elements within the police while they were on their way to work or in the process of discharging their professional duties.
“Strict action must be ensured against those misguided elements within the police who are bringing discredit and reproach to their community by indulging in such gratuitous acts,” the statement said.
“We can confirm that some of our colleagues have been heckled and harassed by some high-headed and biased elements in the police force thereby creating an atmosphere that vitiates and undermines the morale of our healthcare warriors,” it said.
It said that the healthcare workers are under tremendous physical and psychological pressure while dealing with the pandemic.
Besides this, it said, the doctors are made to queue in long lines meant to chaff off lockdown defaulters. “This notwithstanding the fact that these doctors plead their case for allowing easy access but almost always these pleas fall on deaf and indifferent ears,” it said.
JKSCD, after conveying a virtual meeting chaired by its’ president Dr Maajed Jehangeer and attended by senior functionaries including Dr Masood Rashid and Dr Irfan Shams condemned this behaviour by some black sheep within the force which tantamount to nothing less than harassment, bitter denunciation.
JKSCD has appealed the senior officials of the police especially the IGP Kashmir, to facilitate the smooth working of all healthcare professionals in these trying times.
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