‘Doctors Sena’ to remove sorcerers from LLR hospital

KANPUR: Doctors at the LLR hospital, an associate hospital of GSVM Medical College, are worried about the growing influence of sorcerers over patients. They have decided to launch a drive to remove the sorcerers and their agents from the hospital premises.

The doctors have decided to form a ‘Doctor’s Sena’ to identify sorcerers and their agents active in the hospital and would initiate legal action against them for quitting the hospital premises.

The doctors apprised the principal of the GSVM Medical College Dr Navneet Kumar of their plan. The principal has strongly condemned the acts of sorcerers and asked the doctors to go ahead with their proposed plan.

The ‘Doctors’ Sena’ would comprise senior doctors, nursing staff, paramedical staff and security guards who would identify the sorcerers and initiate action against them. According to Dr Yashwant Rao the sorcerers are most active in the medicine, paediatrics and infectious disease hospital. As per hospital records about 50 to 60 patients are admitted to these departments everyday and average 15 of them run away from the wards without informing the doctors under the influence of sorcerers, the hospital’s finding have revealed.

The guards at the paediatric department were asked not to allow any patient go without obtaining the discharge slip.

Sorcerers also misguided patients bitten by dog or snakes and squeezed money from them. The most popular sorcerer in the hospital is ‘Paniwala Baba.’

A senior doctor pleading anonymity said the influence of sorcerers on the patients has been on the rise. The agents including men and women trapped the attendants of patients and narrated the success stories of their “guru” gifted with ‘miraculous and supernatural powers’ in treating the most complicated diseases. Often patients belonging to rural and city areas were influenced by such sorcerers and left the hospital to be treated by them.