Appeal for Doctors to serve survivors of Jaipur blasts
Can you be “on call” for our sisters and brothers in Jaipur?
If so, please provide your name, specialisation, and location. Here is a message from our friends working in Jaipur:
Currently there is no need for any doctors to come to Jaipur as many have come from all over Rajasthan.
However in the coming weeks there will be a need for specialists of different kinds- particularly those dealing with bullet injuries, disabilities, trauma counselling. We need a list of doctors willing to help the victims in future if required.
Please help out by sending us ( aid.delhi@gmail.com) names of doctors, their areas of specialisation, location and nature of help they can render. This list will be kept purely for use on a need basis and will be given to doctors in Jaipur who may refer some of their patients to people on the lists. A charity concert is being planned sometime in June to raise funds for the treatment of victims.
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FREE MEDICAL CAMP FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKERS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE CAMPAIGN TO FREE DR BINAYAK SEN
Dr. Binayak Sen has been true to the spirit and vision of his alma mater and has carried his dedication to truth and service to the very frontline of the battle. He has broken the mould, redefined the possible role of the doctor in a broken and unjust society, holding the cause much more precious than personal safety. CMC is proud to be associated with Binayak and Ilina Sen.
–The Citation in 2004 when his alma mater, Christian Medical College, Vellore, gave him the prestigious Paul Harrison award for his work
May 14, 2008 will mark one year since Dr Binayak Sen is in custody on the flimsy ground of giving medical aid to an ailing prisoner. He is a medical doctor who has been working among the poor for the last 30 years. He is also a well-known health activist who has been actively involved in taking health services to remote adivasi communities. He received the prestigious Paul Harrison Award (2004) for ‘a lifetime of service to the rural poor’ and the Keithel medal of the Indian Academy of Social Sciences (2007) for his ‘outstanding contribution to the science of nature-man-society. More recently, he has been awarded the prestigious international Jonathan Mann Award. In an age where the medical profession is becoming increasingly commercialized, Dr Binayak stands out as a beacon upholding the right of the poor and the dispossessed to free and adequate health care.
Dr Sen was arrested on May 14th 2007 under the Chhatisgarh Special Public Security Act, 2005, which holds any association with banned organizations is a crime. Dr Sen has been accused of association with the banned CPI (Maoist) in the state because he provided urgent medical help to an ailing, jailed leader of the CPI (Maoist) Narayan Sanyal, officially with the permission of the jail administration in Raipur.The police also allege that Dr Sen had been the conduit for exchange of letters between Maoist leaders. The police also claim that after ‘encounter’ killings of Maoists activists by them, they have recovered some papers in which Dr Sen’s name has been mentioned.
The government has also supported the extra legal militia called Salwa Judum to crush people’s struggles and organizations. Since 2005, when Salwa Judum began, at least 60,000 adivasis have been evicted from their homes and forcibly shunted into police camps, their villages have been burnt and women have been raped. The PUCL, Chhatisgarh, and Dr Binayak Sen have been in the forefront of opposition to Operation Salwa Judum and have consistently exposed the role of the Chhatisgarh government in this operation.
We would like to continue the zeal and spirit of Dr`Sen to help providing health services to the vulnerable groups, and will be holding a medical camp to mark one year of his incarceration and to press for his immediate release.
We appeal to doctors and health care workers and concerned citizens to volunteer their services at this medical camp. We also welcome donations for purchase of medicines to be disbursed at this camp.
Venue : Mobile Creche Centre at the Construction site of Kalpataru Aura
(where over 600 workers are building 15 buildings of 15 storeys each)
across the road from the Dargah near Shreyas Talkies,
L B S Marg,
Ghatkopar (West),
MUMBAI.Date : Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Timings : 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
– Committee for the Release of Dr Binayak Sen
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Bangalore:Medical camp in support of imprisoned doctor
The Hindu -26th April 2008
Bangalore, Staff reporter
Instead of sloganeering and rhetoric, groups of doctors across the country hit upon the idea of organising free medical camps to express their opposition against the imprisonment of human rights activist Binayak Sen.
To highlight what they termed an unfair arrest, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), such as People’s health movement and Medico Friends Circle organised one such camp at LR Nagar in Koramangala here on Friday.
Dr. Sen, vice-president of People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), was arrested at Bilaspur in Chattisgarh in May 2007, on the charge of being linked to naxalites. Dr. Sen is known for his work among the poor. He is credited with setting up a unique 400 bed hospital run by a workers cooperative in a backward area of Chattisgarh.
Two of the six doctors at the camp, N. Devadasan and his wife Rupa, both public health specialists, were associates of Dr Sen. Dr Devadasan is a fellow alumni from CMC, Vellore.
“We were shocked when we heard of his arrest because he is a very gentle person and one who does not believe in violence. Associating him with naxalites seems illogical,” said Dr Devadasan. “To a person such as Dr Sen, it will not matter if his patient is a naxalite or a capitalist, because it would be his primary duty as a doctor to save anyone he can, ” he said.
“He is always humble, always simple. Never a very vocal person, Dr Sen was always action-oriented,” said SJ Chander, a social scientist and member of the People’s Health Movement.
The camp was inaugurated by Hassan Mansoor, State convenor for the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, and popular comedian Sriram, both of whom sought prevention of abuse of human rights in all forms.
Referring to people arriving for the camp, activist P. Robert said, “This stream will keep up the whole day. Consultation and medication will be provided for as long as possible. Such aid is also provided in many Free Binayak Clinics that have been set up throughout the country.”
Renukamma, a resident said, “Going to normal clinics cost us at least Rs 200 in consultation and medication charges. So the free camp means a lot to us.”
This camp will be held next month at the same venue. Local people have offered to contribute to such camps.
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Kerala: MEDICAL CAMPS FOR DR BINAYAK SEN’S RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE
19 April 2008
The Kerala Swatantra Matsyathoyilali Federation (KSMTF) and Free Dr Binayak Sen Campaign have decided to hold free medical camps in Kerala in a unique show of support for the release of well known health and human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen.
On 14th May 2007, almost a year ago, Dr Sen was arrested by the Chattisgarh police under the draconian ‘Unlawful Activities Prevention Act’ on false charges of being a ‘Maoist’.
Almost a year later now Dr Sen continues to be in jail and hearings of the case against him in the Chattisgarh High Court have commenced. In the meanwhile Dr Sen, who has already lost 15 kilos in just ten months of imprisonment and is in poor health, languishing in jail for the sole crime of working with the poor and defending democratic rights.
“ The arrest of Dr Sen is a case of high handed behaviour of the BJP ruled Chattisgarh government against an internationally renowned doctor with three decades of public service” said T.Peter, President, KSMTF, C.Sarat Chandran, film maker and Satya Sivaraman of the Free Dr Binayak Sen Campaign in a statement.
An alumnus of the Christian Medical College and of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Dr Sen is a respected physician much honoured for his self-sacrificing commitment to social causes. In December 2007, the Indian Academy of Social Sciences conferred on him the R. R. Keithan Gold Medal, as an “indefatigable defender of human rights and Gandhian social activist of rare courage and dedication”. Currently, he has been nominated for the Jonathan Mann Award 2008, the highest international award for health professionals excelling in human rights activities.
KSMTF plans to join health and human rights activists around India who are campaigning for Dr Sen’s release through a series of Free Binayak Sen Medical Camps to arouse public awareness about his case.
Over 125 men, women and children attended the first Free Binayak Sen Medical Camp held in New Delhi at the Jai Hind basti, a colony of ragpickers and domestic workers. Other camps are planned every month for the rest of 2008 in Chennai, Coimbatore, Bangalore, Trivandrum and Kolkata.
The medical camps are also part of an effort to take forward Dr Sen’s innovative public health work to new areas and highlight the issues of nutrition, child health and the link between socio-economic rights and health. India has one of the worst health indicators in the world, even lower than that of sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the areas of infant and maternal mortality.
T.Peter President, KSMTF Ph: 9447429243
C.Sarat Chandran Filmmaker 09446426433
Satya Sivaraman Free Dr Binayak Sen Campaign Ph:09818514952
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MEDICAL CAMPS FOR DR BINAYAK SEN’S RELEASE
FREE DR BINAYAK SEN CAMPAIGN
PRESS RELEASE
14 March 2008
A nationwide initiative has been launched for the release of popular health and human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen, controversially arrested in May last year on false grounds of having links with Maoists in Chattisgarh.
The initiative, of holding regular Free Binayak Sen Medical Camps for the urban and rural poor, in cities and towns around the country – is meant to raise public awareness about Dr Sen’s detention under the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, and call for his unconditional release. Dr Sen, a heart patient, kept in a prison in Raipur for the past ten months has lost over 15 kilos of weight during the course of his detention.
The medical camps are part of an effort to take forward Dr Sen’s innovative public health work to new areas and highlight the issues of nutrition, child health and the link between socio-economic rights and health. India has one of the worst health indicators in the world, even lower than that of sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the areas of infant and maternal mortality.
The first such camp will be held in an urban slum area in the national capital New Delhi on 15 March with the help of community organizations and volunteer doctors. Other camps are planned for March in Chennai, Coimbatore, Bangalore and Kolkata.
From April health activist groups in another six cities- Hyderabad, Bhopal, Lucknow, Calicut and Alleppey will join the campaign. Two medical camps in solidarity with Dr Sen have already been held at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in late February, organized by the JNU Students Union and meant for daily wage workers on the campus.
The arrest of the internationally renowned pediatrician, on what are widely seen as trumped up charges, has outraged health and human rights groups throughout the world. Activists see Dr Sen’s arrest as an attempt to punish him for exposing human rights violations in Chattisgarh.
Apart from being a public health activists, Dr Sen is also Vice-President of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, India’s largest civil rights organization formed three decades ago as a response to the Emergency imposed on the country.
For further information contact:
- Dunu Roy, New Delhi qadeeroy at vsnl.com Ph: 9910687627
- Satya Sivaraman, New Delhi satyasagar at gmail.com Ph: 9818514952
- Dr Rakhal Gaitonde, Chennai subharakhal at gmail.com Ph: 9940246089
- Dr Punyabrata Gun, Kolkata shramajibiswasthya at yahoo.co.in Ph: 9830922194
- Dr N.Devadasan, Bangalore mail at phindia.org Ph: 080-26645232
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