Media persons fight health dpt’s ban, burnt copies of circular
Media persons fight health dpt’s ban, burnt copies of circular
By our correspondent
Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat, 8 March, 2010
Journalists in Ahmedabad today burnt copies of state government’s general rule circular issued by state Health department that instructs hospitals, medical colleges and other health department offices to ban entry of media in government hospitals, medical colleges and health department offices.
The circular states that if a journalist is found to be repeatedly pestering hospital staff, his government accreditation will be canceled. It also states that photography and videography of buildings and their premises will not be allowed without approval. The top authorities have been directed not to interact with journalists. If a journalist is found to be violating the new norms, police action will be sought against him. No journalist will be allowed in government-run hospitals and their colleges without prior permission from deans or medical superintendents. A notice board stating the same will be put up outside the buildings.
More than 100 journalists from print and electronic media gathered at Ahmedabad’s Civil hospital opposite Superintendent’s office and shouted slogans against state dictatorship and media censorship with banner. Journalists burnt several copies of state circular. Media persons together entered Civil hospital premises with slogans and broke the rule issued by state government banning their entry in health premises without permission.
Interacting with media persons, Shri M.M.Prabhakar, Superintendent of Ahmedabad Civil hospital said he was agree with the demands of reporters against the circular and his experience with media was always good. He said he believed there was no need of such circular. He accepted the memorandum submitted by media persons with their signatures.
On Monday, similar demonstrations were held in Rajkot, Vadodara and Gandhinagar also. In Vadodara, journalists gathered at Civil hospital’s superintendent office demanded to arrange talk with the Health Minister on phone. The Minister came on phone and agreed with the demands made by media persons. He said the issue would be sorted out soon. He assured protesting reporters that they would be allowed to enter health department premises without any restriction till the issue is sorted out. After meeting with journalists and phone talk with minister, the hospital authority removed a sign board on hospital gate that was put there to instruct the media persons not to enter premises without permission.
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I WOULLD SAY THIS BAN BY GUJARAT GOVERMENT IS 100 PERCENT CORRECT…PEOPLE..OF
GUJART…SHOULD SUPPORT…MODI GOVERMENT ON THIS….BECAUSE…THIS ARE THE SAME MEDIA
PERSON’S AFTER GODHRA RIOTS WERE GOING TO HOSPITAL…AND SPREADIND WRONG
INFORMATION…TO PUBLIC THAT TIME…AND INTERVIEWING MUSLIM FOR SMALL..THING AND
PRODUCING TOTALLY WRONG NEWS ABOUT HINDUS. I GUJARAT HAS TO PROGRESS..THIS
MEDIA..SUCKER’S MUST BE LIMITED…IN MOST OF THE..PLACES…NAME OF FREE SPECCH…THEY
CREATING HATE BITWEEN HINDU AND MUSLIMS.
Seems health minister has watched “Rann” movie.
You junk journos…..he is right…he must stick to his agenda…
Infect every govt department has to seperate out one department, ‘Media Center’ who must handle all queries from media and provides appropriate information after investigating everything….
This is the only solution to handle an Indian rogue media and this what you junkiies deserves……..
I do not trust indian media. It is courrept, purchased and bias…..
It is just like during Hitler time, He had propaganda ministry, not info. ministry..
I had a chance to talk to one “PATRKAR” one time, and I asked why you have halfnaked ladies pictures in your news paper and he tried to defend, after a while he indirectly pointed that that they get paid for that…
In a newspaper a story, a lie you tell ten times, becomes truth…. I do not subscribe any paper or watch any channel and I do not buy any product once I have seen their AD. on TV….
Just bouycott them… Slowly these people courrpting INDIAN society and YOUNG INDIAN mind to make them SLAVES…. THE RICH and POWERFUL want INDIA as a SLAVE….
WAKE UP YOU INDIANS WAKE UP……
Journalists have moral obligations to society and they can help build Nation, They have failed..
Donot trust them…. Do not buy Times of INDIA, Divya Bhaskar, Sandesh, Gujarat Saamachar….
I went to SANDESH AND DIVYA BHASKAR web sites regularly.
From today I have decided not to go these worthless web sites… these web sites do not exist for me… I tell all indians that these people are VOLVES in GOATs skin… DO NO TRUST them…..
I do not want to know worthless news about worthless actors and actresses… If these people are our ROLE MODELS, no wonder , NATION is in trouble…. INDIANs, our HISTORY IS great, learn from history, We are kept devided so these “FATADAS” in DEHLI can rule INDIA…….