Agartala: Tripura Working Journalists’ Association (TWJA) will move Medical Council of India (MCI), Indian Medical Association (IMA) and Press Council of India (PCI) against brutal attack on media personnel by the medical students and intern doctors on April 5.
TWJA General Secretary Debashis Majumder expressed concern over the role of police in taking action against aspiring doctors in Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) and subsequent partiality of the administration in favour of the accused.
“Media personnel were there to cover the incident when intern doctors beat up one Mithun Chakraborty whose wife Rupa (20) died because of doctors’ negligence and he was locked in a toilet. The medical students and interns assaulted as many as nine photo journalists and destroyed a few cameras,” Majumder said.
He alleged that more than 300 medicos attacked the journalists in the campus and they were rescued only when local people and businessmen launched counter attack on them.
Otherwise, the journalists have been killed on the spot.
Despite repeated appeal to the government there was no action to recover the snatching cameras and initiative to compensate the damaged cameras as well as treatment expenses of the injured journalists.
‘It’s really shameful neither information minister nor chief minister or health minister condemned the incident and given any assurance of compensation to the journalists or action against the accused,’ he pointed out.
He, however, pointed out that the agitation of the journalists would be continued until health service in Tripura gets a pro-people facelift and ensures proper training to the medical students besides, exemplary punishment to the accused and due compensation for damage of cameras of the journalists.
He alleged that AGMC was run by the interns and junior doctors every day since evening 5 o’clock to next morning 9 o’clock because all the senior doctors and so called teachers of the college leave the hospital after 4 o’clock and engaged themselves in private chambers.
Even despite repeated call to the specialist doctors, they never turned up unless he or she was VIP and almost every night death cases had been reported due to wrong treatment or negligence and in case Rupa was also the same, Majumder said adding that the hospital did not have the environment of treatment for common people.
‘We shall take up the matter with MCI, IMA, PCI and union health ministry with proof how journalists fell victim and every day the patients are suffering due to non-availability of doctors at night,’ he added. (UNI)