NEW DELHI: The centre on Tuesday said there is no plan to introduce a separate law for the protection and safety of medical professionals from workplace violence.In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, the Minister of State of Health and Family Welfare, Anupriya Patel, said, “As the state laws have adequate provisions to address day-to-day minor offences and serious offences can be addressed by BNS, 2023, there is no proposal in the central government for introduction of a separate legislation in this regard. There is no proposal in the central government for introduction of a separate legislation in this regard.”The government had drafted a separate law in 2019 to protect the medical professionals, but later scrapped the proposal.The need for a separate law to protect and safeguard the medical professionals has been a longstanding demand of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and various medical bodies and resident doctor’s associations. The demand has been made in the wake of increasing number of cases of violence against doctors and health professionals over the past few years,To a question from Congress Rajya Sabha MP, Dr. Syed Naseer Hussain, on the number of reported incidents of violence against healthcare professionals in the past three years, the minister said, “As per constitutional provisions, ‘Health’ and ‘Law and Order’ are state subjects. Therefore, it is the primary responsibility of the concerned state/ Union Territory to take note of events and eventualities related to incidents of violence against healthcare professionals.”She also said that data and details on the number of incidents of violence against healthcare professionals are not maintained centrally.
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