Friday, May 23, 2008

"Why are all the people he looked after being punished?"


This man is Dr Binayak Sen, a top notch doctor from CMC, Vellore. He has spent THREE DECADES giving high class medical care to the villagers of Bhagram Nalla & Dalli Rajhara in Chattisgarh. For the past one year,however, Dr Sen is in a jail in Raipur,accused of being a Naxalite supporter & messenger . A doctor who has delivered results far beyond the National Malaria Eradication Program, singlehandedly, has been imprisoned for the last one year. I do not know if the charges pressed against him are true or not, what I am unable to understand is why is Dr Binayak not being allowed to serve the villagers? Has the state government, in the last one year, been able to replicate Dr Sen's medical services in the villages of Bhagram Nalla & Dalli rajhara? No. The pertinent question here is (and I quote) "When you set up base in a rural area it's because you have a certain faith in the system. How do rural doctors retain that faith, after what has happened to Binayak Sen?"

You can read more Dr Binayak Sen here and here. You can also register a formal protest against his imprisonment here.

1 comment:

Anivar said...

I request you to link Binayaksen.net also