Doctors Protesting In India Amid Fresh Covid Surge

Brut India

Dr. Raghuraj Chawla was manhandled by the police during a protest in Delhi. He told Brut why doctors were protesting amid a fresh Covid-19 surge in India.

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00:00We are not terrorists. We are your doctors.

00:30Single agitation, single agenda. We had no second demand.

00:39We did not talk about COVID allowance. We did not talk about raising our salary.

00:43We did not talk about any leave.

01:00We are not terrorists. We are your doctors.

01:30We were protesting peacefully. We did not fight with anyone.

01:48We did not fight with anyone. We were stopped by a barricade a few metres away from Malana Medical College.

01:53We sat on the road at that time.

01:55We said that we will go by footpath and clear the roads.

01:58The police did not respond.

02:00But suddenly police vans started coming.

02:03The police force suddenly increased.

02:06And one by one, the people in front of us,

02:09the four police officers, started throwing each doctor into the police van.

02:26Our fight was for the benefit of patients.

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