Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum
An Inquiry in to the Anti-Muslim Violence in Northeast Delhi by a Team of Doctors that Visited the Affected Area.
Members of the medical team1:
- Dr Vikas Bajpai – Assistant Professor, Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (Ph: 9717820427).
- Dr Harjit Bhatti – Former President, Resident Doctors Association, All India Institute of Medical Scientists (AIIMS) (Ph: 8586848479).
- Dr Sumitran – A consultant radiologist with a government hospital in Delhi.
- Five doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences
It took a 25 to 30 km drive from AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences), to the violence affected areas of Northeast Delhi. We were visiting the area in the context of the massive communal violence, primarily directed against Muslims living in the area, in the wake of their resistance to the CAA Act passed recently by the parliament along with NRC-NPR which threaten to rob millions of Muslims of their Indian citizenship and render them illegal in their own country.
The effort to send this medical team was initiated in the context of massive scale of medical emergency that arose as a result of this violence. In this report, apart from reflecting on the medical suffering of the people, we shall also try to provide a snapshot of the violence that was unleashed and the role of the political-administrative machinery to address the same and its consequences, as were narrated to us by the people we met.
This report is constituted in four sections – ‘Constitution of the medical team’ and methodology of data collection; ‘Medical emergency and the relief work’; ‘How the
1We have deliberately concealed the identity of five doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences on a precautionary note to avoid trouble from the administration. However, we wish to acknowledge that this effort could never have succeeded without their yeoman service and support.
Dr Harjit Bhatti (National Convener) and Dr Vikas Bajpai are members of PMSF. Dr. Sumitran and others went with the team though they are not members of PMSF.
violence happened’ and the ‘Role of the political parties’; and ‘Observations & Recommendations.’
PMSF Inquiry Report in to the Anti-Muslim Violence in Northeast Delhi
