Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday directed Delhi Police Commissioner SN Srivastava to protect the doctors and health professionals facing problem from their landlords. The Home Minister received petition from Resident Doctors’ Association of All India Institute of Medical Science about the errant behaviour of their landlords asking them to vacate the rented homes.
In their complaint to Home Minister and the PMO, the association also requested for transport facilities. “This is to bring to your kind notice that doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers in Covid-2019 care are being asked to vacate their rented homes and some have been forcefully evicted from their temporary residence by landlords and house owners due to the fear that those healthcare professionals make them more susceptible to coronavirus infection.”
“Many doctors are now stranded on the roads, nowhere to go, across the country. We condemn such attitude and hereby, request you to release an order, as soon as possible, prohibiting the landlords /owners to evict the tirelessly working doctors and other healthcare professionals,” said the doctors’ association.
Dr Srinivas Rajkumar, general secretary of the AIIMS association, later said the Home Minister had called him and assured that “any such issue of ostracisation will be taken seriously and action will be taken immediately.”
The association also pointed out that the healthcare professionals facing problem in transportation due to complete lockdown. “Therefore we request you to arrange proper transport for the healthcare providers across the country and direct the police and involved security administration to allow them to travel hassle free to their workplace upon producing their identify cards.”
Shah later phoned Srivastava to ask him to take action on complaints received from healthcare professionals.