Rayees Shah
A family from the Ganderbal district of Kashmir has filed a police complaint against a doctor for harassing a Pharmicist, Niyaz Ahmed.
Reyaz Ahmed, his brother who runs a medical shop at Manigam Ganderbal has filed a police complaint at police station Lar. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat Reyaz said that a doctor named Shahid-ul-Islam barged into the medical shop of his brother and forcibly quarantined him for 4 hours in a quarantine centre, even not allowing him to contact his family over phone.
“The doctor told my brother that he had received information from Chief Medical Officer and Block Medical Officer Islamabad (Anantnag) that my brotherhad recently come into the contact of a positive patient from Islamabad (anantnag) and he has to be quarantined. When my brother told him that he will inform the family on phone, the doctor refused and forcibly put him into ambulance and kept him in a nearby quarantine centre for 4 hours. He was released from quarantine centre at around 6:30 of Thursday evening,” Reyaz Ahmed said.
“If my brother has come into the contact of a positive patient, why then was his house was not sanitized and his family members not quarantined. It was a sheer harassment. My brother has not committed any crime. Why the said doctor didn’t follow any procedure,” he questioned.
Reyaz Ahmed claimed that he called CMO and BMO Anantnag who feigned ignorance about the matter and said they never informed any doctor from Ganderbal to quarantine a Pharmacist.
He claimed that the said doctor is habitual of harassing people. “Before this incident, this doctor also targeted the owner of ‘Harmukh’ medical shop and labeled him as Covid-19 suspect.
The SHO Lar Arshid Ahmed after being contacted by The Kashmiriyat confirmed that they received a police complaint against the doctor. He said matter is being investigated.
The Kashmiriyat also spoke to Chief Medical Officer Ganderbal, Dr Mehrajuddin who said that the said doctor is a part of Surveillance Team in the area.
“We allowed the Pharmacist to go home and asked him to quarantine himself if he develops symptoms. We had received information that he had come into contact with a positive patient,” he said adding that instead of boarding the ambulance, the Pharmacist had desired to visit the quarantine centre in his personal vehicle, which annoyed the doctor.