VJT announces proceedings against doctors because of the “sound cannon”: What does the profession say about that? – Society

While the prosecutor’s office is investigating who and why spread the claims about the use of a sound cannon, Danas interlocutors warn that medical assistance to citizens who came in with complaints was a legal obligation of doctors, and they see the announcement of prosecution as an attempt to intimidate and divert attention from the event itself to those who spoke about it.

Hajrija Mujović, doctor of medical law and retired scientific advisor for Danas, pointed out that the actions of a doctor who accepts to treat and diagnose a patient is completely legal, and that no objection can be made to that.

“If doctors refused to examine a patient, they would be making a kind of discrimination against other citizens. I think that a certain mistake is being made by commenting on that context, it is not at all relevant to the medical care of a person. If a citizen as a patient reports to a health institution, there is an obligation on the health institution and its employees to examine the patient and provide him with medical assistance. It makes no difference whether he came from the street or from a house or from any other area. There should be no difference,” he explains. Mujovic.

As she adds, in such cases, the law that regulates the provision of health services and the law that regulates the rights of patients must be applied, and that due to the unpredictability of the situation, this mass reporting of patients to doctors could be cited as an emergency.

“In emergency cases, there can be no exception to the examination of patients.
I even think it is wrong to mark the documentation with some letters, as was done with the letter “P”. This is completely unacceptable, as these are elements of treatment that are not medical. Only medical regulations and ethics apply here. Anything else would be wrong and in a way a violation and violation of those obligations”, Mujović explains.

Vladan Marković, vice-president of the Union of Doctors and Pharmacists of Serbia, pointed out that the position of the Union regarding this case is that everyone should in their work, especially in some public functions, be guided by positive legal regulations and act accordingly as well as bear their personal and professional responsibility.

As he added, his personal position regarding the proceedings announced by prosecutor Marković is that the whole situation has not been sufficiently clarified and that it is not clear who exactly belongs to the fourth group of people.

“That idea sounds a little unbelievable to me, although it is not sufficiently clarified who he means in terms of that fourth group, because as far as I have seen, it refers to the organizers of mass examinations. As far as I know, remembering all this, no one has organized examinations. The official organization of examinations, such as for example breast screening, takes place through state authorities, through the Ministry of Health or through institutions. Does this mean that someone from state structures organized these examinations? If we say mass, it means that mass examinations can only be organized through state institutions institution”, points out Marković.

Six non-governmental organizations created a platform for the testimony of more than 3,000 citizens who experienced the impact of the “sound cannon” that evening at the protest.

Zoran Radovanović, a retired epidemiologist and professor of the Faculty of Medicine, was among those gathered at the protest on March 15 and found himself in a part of the street where, according to him, he heard a “terrible, inhuman, horrifying sound.”

“I have never experienced such an unpleasant sound effect and it cannot be simulated. We were standing motionless, I was looking at some young people in front of me, no one was moving, grave silence and suddenly this sound. As I was standing on the road next to the sidewalk, the crowd knocked me and my wife down, several of them stepped on us. Fortunately, it stopped immediately, it lasted three, four seconds, five at the most. There was a nice crowd at the protest and when they saw us lying down they approached and So it calmed down within a few seconds, but that sonic boom was really terrible,” explains Radovanović.

When asked to comment on prosecutor Miodrag Marković’s announcement that he will prosecute people for this case, the retired professor said that this is a “monstrous way” of turning the story around.

“When freedom comes, the chief prosecutor and his deputy must be held accountable. In earlier totalitarian regimes, things like this were carried out more subtly. This is a thug attack on common sense. Everything that follows these days, this bizarre interpretation, is the result of a sick mind. We have completely crossed the line of normality, because there are two elements – the sonic boom itself was a vile attack on one’s own people, and this attempt to get out of it belongs to severe psychopathology,” Radovanović points out.

Doctor Dejan Žujović believes that there is no criminal offense if a doctor examines a man who has some ailments, because he attended any large gathering and felt some ailments in the sense of dizziness, pain in the ears, hearing loss or the like.

“Now everyone is competing to see who will please the great leader more, since they know that the great leader is in a great crisis. Prosecuting doctors because they examined people with ailments is crazy. I do not run away from someone prosecuting me if I commit a criminal act, but that was not the case here,” explains Žujović.

He added that this kind of tone and address in public serves only the least literate, “least thinking” part of the nation so that they think that doctors should be blamed.

“Whenever there is something ugly in this society, we remember that there is a very horrible group of citizens, they are called doctors, they only do us harm, and then, why not hit them a little?

I think that this people would most like us to work for a handful of rice and to live like yogi flyers, in certain rhythms, to walk the streets and to heal them with touch, if we get there,” Žujović points out.

The President of the Medical Chamber of Serbia, Miodrag Stanić, did not answer the question of the Danas journalist yesterday about the announcement of the prosecutor, Miodrag Marković, that he will prosecute four groups of people, one of whom is a doctor, for providing medical assistance requested by the citizens after the alleged effect of the sound cannon.