Thread by @SonaliVaid, Starting a #THREAD of articles on how #doctors & health workers are [...]

Starting a #THREAD of articles on how #doctors & health workers are criminalized by governments for doing their medical & humanitarian duty.

I am no expert, please tag & add links in thread.

#bearingwitness #hippocraticoath #stateviolence #humanrights #alhind #DrAnwar #India

https://www.ippnw.org/pdf/mgs/2-2-lucas.pdf

"Health professionals are especially subject to becoming victims of arbitrary warrantless arrest, & are some times imprisoned for yrs without being prosecuted or
convicted. Their professional ethic puts
healthworkers in conflict with ..social injustice"

June 2013, #protests Istanbul #Turkey met with #stateviolence, 100s of medics delivered care. "Criminalization of clinical care through legal & coercive means & the delegitimization of state violence through clinical & expert witnessing of physicians" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01459740.2016.1207641?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=gmea20

The Criminalization of Physicians and the Delegitimization of Violence in Turkey

(2016). The Criminalization of Physicians and the Delegitimization of Violence in Turkey. Medical Anthropology: Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 477-488.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01459740.2016.1207641?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=gmea20

"Conscientious medical professionals across the world believe that resistance to oppression & violence go hand in hand with provision of ethical healthcare, irrespective of the context, caste, religion or background of the patient."

#MEDICSareNOTtargets https://indianculturalforum.in/2020/07/04/statement-in-support-of-dr-m-a-anwar-al-hind-hospital/

Statement in support of Dr. M.A. Anwar, Al Hind Hospital

Demanding removal of his name and all false allegations against him from the chargesheet (FIR 39/20)

https://indianculturalforum.in/2020/07/04/statement-in-support-of-dr-m-a-anwar-al-hind-hospital/

https://twitter.com/PhelimKine/status/1279950692938121218?s=19