SRINAGAR: Doctors dispensing their professional duties in Indian occupied Kashmir have decried harassment and manhandling by the regional police despite the ongoing coronavirus crisis, according a Brut India report.
Senior doctor and cardiologist Syed Maqbool spoke to the publication and said that he was harassed, beaten and kept in police custody without any reason.
“If this is the situation, this is the status of doctors, who are fighting COVID [sic] this time, what will be happening to our juniors? What will be happening to our paramedical staff?” he said.
The doctor said that he was detained on his way to Government Medical College, one of Srinagar’s biggest hospitals.
Dr Maqbool said that despite telling the policeman that he was going on duty, he was not allowed to take the route.
The doctor said when he stepped out of the car to talk to the SHO, he was “hit in the belly” by the policeman with a baton.
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