‘Highly Condemnable, Demoralizing’: Delhi Medical Association on FIR against Ganga Ram Hospital

The Delhi Medical Association has condemned the FIR against Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. The Association, in a press release, stated that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s warning to doctors & threatening hospitals for the admission & testing of Covid-19 patients is condemnable.

The DMA in its release stated that “FIR on Sir Ganga Ram Hospital is highly condemnable & demoralizing for the whole medical fraternity".

The Delhi Medical Association also said that doctors who have been risking their lives amid the Covid-19 pandemic to save lives “feel insulted by the way they are being treated”.

The release said that “Ganga Ram hospital & its doctors who have saved lakhs of lives in the last decades are being penalized & threatened".

The DMA demanded the formation of a coordination committee to after the proper management of coronavirus crisis Delhi.  It also calls for the need to make more testing facilities available. “Every Covid care should have a dedicated testing lab facilities”.

It also made a demand for the smooth & timely transfer of severely sick patients to higher tertiary care centre & the appointment of a nodal officer for every region/area to facilitate overall functioning of Covid care. 

This comes after the Delhi Govt filed an FIR against the medical superintendent of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Rajinder Nagar for not following protocols for testing patients with the coronavirus disease.

The FIR was on the basis of a complaint by deputy secretary of Delhi’s department of health & family welfare, Amit Kumar Pamasi. On June 3, the hospital was asked to stop Covid-19 testing, citing violations of ICMR guidelines.

A copy of the FIR reads that “The order of Health & Family Welfare Department regarding guidelines for tracking & monitoring of every Covid-19 suspected cases tested in various accredited labs across Delhi wherein it was mandatory for the labs to collect sample only through the Delhi government’s RT-PCR App. Further CDMO (Chief District Medical Officer) cum mission director, Central, mentioned that Sir Ganga Ram hospital is still not using RT-PCR app even till today (03/06) which is a clear violation of direction issued under Epidemic Disease Covid-19 regulation 2020".

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