Doctor suspended in Bengal for posting dengue related true information on Facebook

NewsBharati    11-Nov-2017
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Kolkata, November 11: Dengue menace in Bengal is increasing every day in Bengal. While hundreds of people are dying from Dengue, the state administration is still now not taking any big preventive measure. On the other hand, doctors of government hospitals are also in trouble due to increasing pressure on them. A senior doctor of a district hospital posted a status on Facebook revealing the original situation in the hospitals. But the dictator administration could not put up with the post and suspended him.

Doctor Arunachal Dutta Choudhury is a senior doctor in Barasat District hospital, in a brief Facebook post wrote about the present situation in the hospitals. He wrote how under one doctor at least 500 patients are getting admitted within 24 hours. The hospitals don’t have enough bed facility for them. Hence the patients are lying on the floor. Doctors are getting trouble to reach them, to search every patient and hence to diagnose them. Due to the momentum of pressure, doctors are also trying to send the patients home with minimal treatment as soon as possible. In addition to that, they are compelled to write reasons for death a made up one other than dengue. All these information were floating on social media, local media already. But he being a person within the system expressed the problems in a better way.

Other than the written description he also posted a photo on social media which shows noticeboard of the hospital where it was written for 240 patients, one doctor, three nurses, one fourth class staff were allocated.

Finally, he got a show cause notice for “leaking” official information in public. First, he received a caution letter from Hospital Super and then the state health administration sent him a suspension letter. This has created anger among common mass. The doctor is also telling he should have minimum freedom of expression at the age of 60. Most of the doctors of the state are also with him.