Vadodara: Doctors booked as patients do not keep safe distance

VADODARA: Three doctors were booked for violation of public notification at Panigate police station as patients of their hospital near Suleimani Chawl failed to follow social distancing norms here on Tuesday.
Cops said during patrolling in Suleimani Chawl area, a large crowd was witnessed at Faith Hospital and nobody was maintaining social distancing norms. Police went inside the hospital and questioned the doctors why they were not ensuring that patients followed guidelines for coronavirus pandemic. Dr Hasam Moiyuddin, Dr Mubarak Patel and Dr Mohammed Hussain Agarbattiwala could not give a satisfactory reply.
“Being doctors, they should be more careful and ensure that people keep a distance from each other. But here no precautionary measures were being taken despite increasing number of cases in Panigate area. Thus, we registered an offence against the three doctors,” a police official said.

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