‘why scold doctor on duty? ’ tv reporter’s icu coverage faces flak

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Executive Editor of India Today and Aaj Tak, journalist Anjana Om Kashyap, has kicked up a massive storm on social media after her report from a hospital in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur. Reporting on

the encephalitis outbreak, which has killed over a 100 children in the district, Kashyap reached Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital In several tweets shared by Aaj Tak and its Bihar

subsidiary Bihar Tak on Twitter, Kashyap can be seen describing the state of a ward – how it was unhygienic with multiple children in each bed, and how everyone was left “_bhagwaan

bharose_”. However, what angered netizens is another clip where Kashyap, who was now in the ICU, pulled up a junior doctor who was tending to patients, and started asking him about the

infrastructural failures in the hospital, to the point that it turned from questioning to heckling. ‘WHY HECKLE A DOCTOR ON DUTY?’ Many viewers took to social media to say that Kashyap’s

style of reporting from inside the hospital’s ICU was unethical and distasteful. > This is journalism of courage by @aajtak. Heckling the nurses and > doctors and creating nuisance

inside a hospital award. If they show > even one hundredth of this aggression in questioning politicians, > then it'd be quite an achievement. pic.twitter.com/BSEyiwNnTZ > —

Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) June 18, 2019 Kashyap told the doctor that if she hadn’t come, he “wouldn’t have turned around to look at the patient.” In another clip she was seen telling him,

_“camera aur mic ke roshni mein ilaaj nahi hota._ (Treatment can’t happen only in the presence of cameras and mics)”. Many Twitter users condemned the reportage, saying that Kashyap should

not have been allowed into an ICU in the first place and definitely shouldn’t have obstructed a doctor from doing his work. > During the time @anjanaomkashyap spent heckling that doctor,

three > kids on a stretcher arrived there. She's like, "Where are you going > doctor? Won't even answer?" > > Wtf he was running around and trying to do his

job! > — meghnad (@Memeghnad) June 19, 2019 > - @anjanaomkashyap hv some shame. u're behaving like a stulid > fool.Whr is the doctor supposed to keep the kids when there are no

> facilities?You're scolding a doctor on duty!You should be > reprimanded by ur channel head @aroonpurie for unethical > journalism.pic.twitter.com/kNPnffhwnV > — Zainab

Sikander (@zainabsikander) June 19, 2019 > I believe @anjanaomkashyap âs interference and obstruction to > the work of busy medical and nursing staff in demanding times is >

criminal and she should be arrested and charged for causing > deliberate harm to the sick children up to culpable homicide. > pic.twitter.com/HNR5SN29sm > — BeâHavin! (@WrongDoc)

June 19, 2019 After the Twitter outrage, Kashyap put out a tweet explaining her actions. “The truth of mismanagement and indifference in these hospitals had to be brought out,” she wrote,

adding, “Those who are shedding crocodile tears for the doctors, please stop your propaganda of heckling.” > à¤à¤¸à¥à¤ªà¤¤à¤¾à¤² à¤®à¥à¤ > à¤à¤ªà¥à¤°à¤¬à¤à¤§à¤¨ à¤à¤° >

à¤à¥ > à¤®à¥à¤¤ > — Anjana Om Kashyap (@anjanaomkashyap) June 19, 2019 But what use is bringing up the number of child deaths in front of a doctor who is just trying to save lives?

Ironically, Kashyap seems to know that it is a fruitless exercise as she is seen telling the doctor, “_main apko dosh nahi de rahi hu _(I am not blaming you).” ‘WHY IS SHE IN THE ICU? IS SHE

A DOCTOR?’ Others asked why someone from outside, who was not a doctor or a nurse, was allowed to enter an ICU without any precautions. > Who let this lady enter the ICU of a hospital

with camera and mic? > She should have barged in to the concerned minister or CMâs > office to question them about the poor condition of public health > facilities. > This is

not journalism, but publicity stunt > pic.twitter.com/M6l7oHSK95 > — Ravi Nair (@t_d_h_nair) June 19, 2019 However, some also pointed out that Kashyap was not the only journalist who

was reporting from inside hospitals, and that there was a need to revisit journalistic ethics in such scenarios. > Why bricks & bats only for @anjanaomkashyap ? > > Why not

talk about those who started this? > What precedent did they set? > > Why skip all journalists across channels who were inside? > > The media needs to censor itself &

know its boundaries. > But targeting one,is wrong!#AnjanaOmKashyap > — Radhika Khera (@Radhika_Khera) June 19, 2019 To this, others on Twitter said that while there were many who were

in hospitals, it was Kashyap’s act of heckling a doctor on duty, to the point of obstructing their work, was condemnable. > They weren't barking on doctor.. > Who was on duty.

> Please stop supporting wrong things > — Rafash (@at_tareRN) June 19, 2019 Published: 19 Jun 2019, 5:33 PM IST

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