All steps required to be taken to ensure safety of health care professionals.

On 6th May, 2021 the High Court of Bombay at Goa directed the State Government to take all necessary measures, including deployment of police personnel, to ensure that the safety of health care professionals is guaranteed.

Relevant extracts of the said order have been reproduced below-

“Accordingly, we direct the State Administration to take all steps necessary and adequate to ensure that there is no such violence against the healthcare professionals and such violence, if any, is dealt with firmly following the law. For this purpose, State Administration must post sufficient police personnel round the clock at hospitals, wards, etc. Sufficient boards or posters must also be put up at such places to make it clear that there will be zero tolerance towards any form of violence against healthcare professionals. At the same time, State Administration must also involve preventive and social medical professionals and paramedical staff to give the patients and their relatives proper information as to the line of treatment or otherwise, counsel them about the health status of the patients. These directions to be complied with forthwith because particularly matters of protection to the healthcare professionals can brook no delay of any sort.”