SC directs National Task Force to submit report on Preventing Violence in Hospitals
Supreme Court of India
Kolkata: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the national task force, constituted to protect medical professionals, to submit its response within 8 weeks on the reports filed by states and other stakeholders on preventing gender-based violence and developing safety protocols in hospitals.
The top court, in a suo-motu case, constituted the national task force (NTF) on August 20 last year to formulate a protocol on the safety and security of medical professionals in the wake of the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
During Tuesday's hearing, a bench of Justices M M Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh granted eight weeks to the NTF to file its response, news agency PTI reported.
The top court had previously directed hospitals, including AIIMS in New Delhi, to regularise the unauthorised absence of doctors who were part of protests against the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Hospital, Kolkata.
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