PATNA: The Bihar State Health Service Association (BSHSA) at its executive committee meeting held at the IMA building here on Sunday demanded adequate security for doctors across the state.
The BSHSA demanded framing of a special security law and setting up of a special force within 15 days for the protection of doctors, failing which the doctors in each district of the state would wear black badges on July 10, take out a rally in Patna on July 20 and adhere to “work to rule” programme from July 26.
The BSHSA had earlier alleged indecent behaviour and attack on doctors and hospital properties by anti-social elements.
The meeting, which was chaired by BSHSA president Dr Narayan Pandit, also condemned the police for slapping false charges on doctors in some cases to hide their own failure in checking such incidents.
The BSHSA members also criticized the state government for not taking any initiative on formulation of a special security law for the state doctors and forming of a special security force even as a decision to that effect was taken in 2009 in the backdrop of several instances of attack on doctors.
Pandit said that though the principal secretary, health, C K Mishra, had written letters to all the district magistrates to initiate measures to stop attacks on doctors, the situation remains all the same.