A Doctor need not stand up for MLA, asserts Punjab and Haryana High Court

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 pandemic, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has expressed its "anguish" before imposing Rs 50,000 costs on the state.

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A Division Bench also directed the state to forthwith issue a no-objection certificate (NOC) to the doctor for admission to a postgraduate 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 Justices Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Rohit Kapoor held.