In Kashmir, where restrictions are usually stricter than other parts of India, the Covid-19 lockdown has been tough on even the doctors. Senior cardiologist Dr. Syed Maqbool shared his detention story with Brut.
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00:00Can't you see that this is the CMO's vehicle?
00:04You are stopping the health workers, you are disturbing the doctors.
00:07If this is the situation, this is the status of doctors who are fighting COVID this time,
00:14what will be happening to our juniors?
00:16What will be happening to the paramedical staff?
00:30I said, I am a doctor, this is my I-card, this is my duty roster, I am on duty and I have to reach my hospital.
00:55He said, no, whatever you are, whoever you are, I am not going to allow you, you cannot go this way.
01:01This argument continued for one or two minutes.
01:05After that, I stepped out of my car.
01:07I said, I will talk to your SHO.
01:10As soon as I stepped, he just hit my belly with his baton.
01:15And immediately the SHO who was on the other side of the road, he rushed towards me.
01:22He grabbed me and took me in my car to Jedival Police Station.
01:34I kept on telling him that I am the cardiologist on call.
01:38Please give me my phone so that I can call my HOD or my principal
01:43and they arrange some other doctor instead of me who can take care of the emergency calls.
01:49To this, he replies that you doctors are thieves.
01:53You earn commissions, you write duplicate medications, that is what you make money upon.
01:59Go to hell, to hell with your hospital, you and your patients, I am not bothered about that.
02:05This COVID is actually a problem of police and police is tackling it.
02:09He did not listen at all to all this.
02:12And instead he kept on telling me that we have orders from MHA.
02:17We can impose a section, you will not come out of the jail for 10 years.
02:22I am being very lenient with you.
02:47This is the situation, this is the status of doctors who are fighting COVID this time.
03:00On one hand, our Prime Minister, our Home Minister, our State Administration,
03:07all over India, all over the world, people are saluting doctors.
03:11They are paving way for them.
03:13They are creating simple ways for them to reach to their hospitals.
03:19They are being flowered.
03:21And if this is the situation, if this is the status of doctors in Kashmir,
03:27I am a senior interventional cardiologist.
03:29I have been doing cardiology for last 20 years.
03:32If this is the state of affairs with me, what will be happening to our juniors?
03:38What will be happening to the paramedical staff?
03:41What will be happening to the medical staff?