AIADMK’s Jayakumar hits out at Tamil Nadu law and order after brutal attack on doctor in Chennai hospital
Chennai: Following a vicious assault on a doctor in a Chennai hospital, AIADMK politician and former state minister D Jayakumar blasted the current DMK-led Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday, claiming that “Tamil Nadu is facing worst law and order situation.”
Jayakumar stated that the government must protect people’s lives and questioned how an outsider could enter a hospital with a knife.
“The state of law and order in Tamil Nadu is at its worst. Murders and robberies occur daily. In this condition, even life-saving physicians are not safe. We have come here to ask our boss about the condition of Balaji, the wounded doctor. Why would a stranger enter a hospital with a knife? “The government has a responsibility to protect people’s lives,” he said.
At Chennai’s Kalaignar Centenary Hospital, oncologist Dr. Balaji was “stabbed at least seven times” by the accused Vigneswaran, according to authorities.
The hospital’s director said that the accused had been visiting the hospital with his mother, who was undergoing cancer treatment and had finished six rounds of chemotherapy.
Following the event, Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian met with representatives of the medical organization and other relevant authorities on Wednesday to discuss the problem of doctor safety.
Addressing the press According to Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian, the doctor is now receiving treatment and is safe. He further said that more investigation is being conducted and that one individual has been apprehended by the police department in this instance.
“The doctor is receiving therapy and is now safe. He has experience working in many state government hospitals. One individual was taken into custody by the police department after the event, and an investigation is still ongoing.The protest that the doctors had previously announced has been dropped. The physicians have withdrawn their protest after we gave them assurances concerning their safety,” Subramanian said.
Udhayanidhi Stalin, the deputy chief minister of Tamil Nadu, promised that the state government would make sure that a similar tragedy didn’t occur again.
“After seeing the wounded doctor in the afternoon, I already spoke to the media. An accident occurred. The minister of health is speaking to reporters. We’ll make sure that doesn’t occur once again,” he said.
Tamilisai Soundararajan, a BJP politician, too called the doctor’s action regrettable and denounced it.
“First and foremost, I pray for his speedy recovery because a doctor serving the patient should not have been assaulted,” Soundararajan told a media report. It’s terribly regrettable. I apologize; it’s terribly regrettable that he got stabbed.
Raj Bhavan of Tamil Nadu denounced the incident, stating that violence against medical professionals is never acceptable.
“It is disturbing and absolutely unacceptable that Dr. Balaji Jagannathan was attacked. Violence against physicians and the medical community in any form is completely intolerable. To protect the safety and security of physicians and other healthcare workers, particularly in hospitals, quick and decisive action is necessary. “I’m praying for Dr. Balaji to recover quickly,” Raj Bhavan said in a post.
The administration has been “irresponsible” in how it has handled the situation, according to BJP national spokesman CR Kesavan.
Kesavan told a media report that the health minister’s response was very careless. He said without checking the facts that the assailants were from North India, but he then changed his statement to add that they were from the same state.
