Jabalpur: The Principal Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court while hearing a Public Interest Litigation filed by an RTI activist Ansul Tiwari has directed the state government to present a detailed blueprint for ensuring doctors’ safety within 14 days. Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva has sought to know from government the safety measures it has implemented so far in medical colleges across the state post the Kolkata’s doctor rape and murder incident. Following the gruesome rape and murder of a doctor in RG Kar medical college in Kolkata, the Junior Doctors Association (JUDA) raising the doctors’ safety issue demanded implementation of doctors’ protection act, setting up of police chowky in hospitals attached to medical colleges in state.
As per the High Court order, the state government has been asked to respond regarding the safety of doctors. The points include transport for duty doctors, a state grievance committee, a police post, a closed campus, an attendant’s policy, a no photography or videography rule, and a bed occupancy policy. “HC has asked the state government to come up with a strategy and planning for the safety and security of women doctors in hospitals and medical colleges and how it is planning to ensure their safety. Fourteen day time has been given to the state government to submit the report,” said the counsel of the Petitioner.