With rising incidents of attacks on doctors and paramedical staff, the health unions of Chhattisgarh on Thursday demanded filing of first information reports (FIR) by concerned institutions.
The Chhattisgarh In-Service Doctors Association as well as other bodies including the Indian Medical Association sought registration of FIR by institutions where the incidents of assault occur.
The state government should issue a notification to make this compulsory, it said.
Those involved in such incidents should be arrested within 24 hours. Instead of contract-based security system, local youths should be given regular contractual appointments after imparting training. The security personnel should be given insurance cover.
The victim doctors and staff should be granted special week-long leave to recover from the trauma of physical assault. A special allowance of Rs 25,000 should be given as compensation, it said.
