Shashi Tharoor introduces bill to protect medical personnel remembering late Dr Vandana Das
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Voicing the critical issue of attack on doctors that has plagued the healthcare sector in India, and proposing means to weed the menace, Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament has introduced The Healthcare Personnel and Healthcare Institutions (Prohibition of Violence and Damage to Property) Bill, 2023 in the Lok Sabha.
The private member bill, which was introduced in the Parliament on Friday, was introduced by Congress MP Tharoor in honour of the late Dr. Vandana Das, who was brutally stabbed to death by a patient. "If passed, my Bill should be known as the Vandana Das Act, in honour of the brave young medical martyr," MP Tharoor mentioned in a Tweet.
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