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Junior doctors take to streets
JUNIOR DOCTORS of Baba Raghav Das Medical College took out a procession in protest against high-handedness of PTS jawans with their colleagues in Nauchandi Express near Moradabad. The doctors forced the shop owners to pull down their shutters, blocked traffic movement at the medical college gate, organised a meeting and demanded immediate arrest of the accused and Rs 10 lakh compensation to the injured.Health services at Nehru Hospital of the medical college remained crippled .
JUNIOR DOCTORS of Baba Raghav Das Medical College took out a procession in protest against high-handedness of PTS jawans with their colleagues in Nauchandi Express near Moradabad. The doctors forced the shop owners to pull down their shutters, blocked traffic movement at the medical college gate, organised a meeting and demanded immediate arrest of the accused and Rs 10 lakh compensation to the injured.
Health services at Nehru Hospital of the medical college remained crippled and emergency services and the OPD functioning came to a grinding halt due to the strike. Meanwhile, principal of the college RD Mukheja said that no junior doctor was missing in the incident, though half a dozen students had received injuries in the clash in the train. He admitted that the condition of junior doctor Kamlesh Sharma was critical.
The other junior doctors sustained injuries in the police action included Dr Sudhir Singh, Dr Dhannajaya, Dr Vishal Srivastav, Dr AK Pandey, Dr Shivendra Ojha and Dr Ajay. They alleged that the PTS jawans tried to misbehave with the women junior doctors and when they retaliated PTS jawans informed their Moradabad unit to elicit support. As the train arrived at platform number 5 at Moradabad, PTS jawans brutally beat up and kicked the doctors. They attacked them with riffle butts inflicting serious injuries to them.
The junior doctors had to escape to save their lives.
It is to be noted that around half a dozen junior doctors had gone to Meerut to participate in Uttar Pradesh Postgraduate Medical Entrance Test. They were returning by Nauchandi Express when the incident took place.
The medicos said the PTS jawans, who had boarded the train at Hapur railway station, passed objectionable remarks against the girls’ students travelling with them.
When the doctors objected to this, the PTS jawans indulged in a verbal duel with them. They also passed on a message to the Moradabad unit of the PTS .
They attacked the junior doctors when the train arrived at platform number 5 at Moradabad railway station.
The doctors alleged that the attack on them was part of a well-planned conspiracy as usually Nauchandi Express arrives at platform number 1.
However, on this occasion it arrived at platform number 5 following directions from the PTS. Meanwhile, college principal RD Mukhija said that he had made telephonic contact with junior doctors Rizwan Ahmad and Ranjan Kumar who had confirmed that all of them were safe and no one was missing.
