Coming down heavily on Haryana for proceeding against a doctor merely because he “did not rise when the MLA arrived” in the emergency ward during the Covid-19 period, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has expressed its “anguish” before imposing Rs 50,000 costs on the State. A Division Bench also directed the State to forthwith issue a no objection certificate to the doctor for admission to a post-graduate course.

“With anguish, we note that frequent reports surface in newspapers of dedicated medical professionals being ill-treated by relatives of patients or public representatives without valid cause. Time has come when such undesirable incidents are checked and due recognition is extended to sincere medical professionals,” the Bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Rohit Kapoo

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