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Four junior doctors at Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College were detained by Uttar Pradesh Police after they tried to meet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to raise demands and highlight flaws during his visit to Jhansi on Sunday.
The incident happened when the resident doctors attempted to meet the chief minister with their memorandum containing three-pointer demands and flaws during Yogi s visit to the medical college to review COVID facilities.
In several videos posted online, the police officials are seen shoving and pushing the doctors towards the police van as they demand to at least hand over the memorandum to the chief minister. Go to the police station now. You can give the letter (to the chief minister) later, a woman officer can be heard in one of the videos.
Updated 5 hours ago Doctors being taken into custody at Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College in Jhansi on Sunday. | Pankhuri Pathak/Twitter screengrab
Four junior doctors of the Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi were taken into custody by the police on Sunday after they tried to present a memorandum to Chief Minister Adityanath.
The chief minister was on a visit to take stock of the Covid-19 facilities in the college and the doctors wanted to raise a few demands regarding the administration and infrastructure at the facility.
The doctors were later released.
The Resident Doctors Association Trust of Uttar Pradesh posted about the development on its Facebook page and social media users also posted videos of the police taking the doctors into custody.
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