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Dr Binayak Sen: A medical visionary:
His life and work for people in
Chhattisgarh,& for public health inIndia.
J an Swasthya Abhiyan
Medico Friends¶ Circle
Free Binayak Sen Campaign²Doctors in Solidarity
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College Day, Bagayam, late 1960s
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Academic qualifications
M.B.B.S. in 1972 and D.C.H. : Christian MedicalCollege, Vellore.
M.D. Pediatrics in 1976: Christian MedicalCollege, Vellore.
One of the top students of the college.
Winner of IDPL National Award for best essayon medical education.
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Binayak¶s M.D. Thesis was on
MARASMUS AND
MALNUTRITION INCHILDREN He began to get involved in the
issues of hunger, poverty and socialinequity.
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What did such a bright person do
after qualifying as a specialist?
I. Taught in the Centre of Social Medicineand Community Health of Jawaharlal
Nehru University for two years²1976-¶78.
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II.Worked for Tuberculosis patients in rural
Hoshangabad district ± Friends Rural
Centre, Rasulia 1978-1981.
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III. Worked in a workers¶ health movement inChhattisgarh and towards creating a
hospital unparalleled in India and possibly
the world.
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Chhattisgarh was a part of Madhya
Pradesh
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Chhattisgarh as it is now
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Dalli Rajhara, District Durg.
Contractual workers of the iron ore mines
of Bhilai Steel Plant at Dalli Rajhara.
Pathetic living conditions.
No access to healthcare.
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In late seventies
Chhattishgarh Mines Shramik Sangh vice-
president Kusumbai died during childbirth
in the Steel plant hospital in Dalli Rajhara
being neglected by the doctors and
nurses.
Workers vowed to build a maternity home
their own.
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Safai Andolan
In 1980 the workers struggled forcing theSteel Plant management to makearrangements for waste disposal in the
slums. Dalli-Rajhara came to limelight when Com.
Shankar Guha Niyogi was arrested under
MISA for the anti-mechanisation struggle. Doctors got attracted towards themovement.
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Shaheed Hospital -Dalli Rajhara
A program of the toilers by the toilers.
No external funding, constructed by the
workers from contribution from their wages.
Workers participate in decision making
and day to day functioning.
Vision of Shankar Guha Niyogi, and
doctors like Dr. Binayak Sen, Dr. Asis
Kumar Kundu, Dr. Saibal Jana.
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Shankar Guha Niyogi²an unique
trade-union leader
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A UNIQUE HOSPITAL IS BORN
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Hospital of the toilers, by the toilers,
for«. everybody
Shaheed Dispensary in 1982
15 bedded hospital in 1983
50 bedded hospital in 1989 with Operationtheater, laboratory, pharmacy.
Served people of 150 km radius
Major emphasis on demystification of medicines
rational therapy, cost reduction and equity.
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Shaheed HospitalOf the toilers, by the toilers for
everyone .
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Observations by a Doctor on Binayak
in Shaheed Hospital ³I met Dr Sen first in August 1984. He was examining a child
in the verandah of the Shaheed Hospital when the child passed stools. Binayak went and fetched a mop and
cleaned up the mess.³He told me that he was as qualified as anybody else to
handle a mop- so why not?
³I cannot understand how that quiet and polite gentleman can
be considered seditious.?´
Prabir Chatterjee, CMC post-graduate
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IV. Worked with under-served village
communities to develop programs toimprove their health, education and
agriculture.
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1994: Rupantar
Raipur: Nagri Sihawa Block, Bagrumnala Vill.
People displaced by dam-building in the upper
Mahanadi catchment area.
Previous health services practically non-existent.
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Trained, deployed, monitored community healthworkers in 20 villages.
Provided referral backup for these workers.
Basic medical lab with locally trained technician.
Care for a variety of illnesses e.g. Falciparum
malaria, tuberculosis.
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A people ««
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And their doctor««
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The first school in Kekrakholi..
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Improving yields«.
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Protecting Chattisgarh¶s rich
biodiversity
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Women¶s issues
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IV. Worked to strengthen primary and
secondary health care in Chhattisgarh
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Member , State Advisory Committee on
Health Sector Reforms.
Implementation of the Mitanin Programme
in 2 blocks of the state.
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Mitanin Programme
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Chhattisgarh State Drug Formulary
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Standard Treatment Guidelines for Medical Officers, Chhattisgarh
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V. Worked for provision and protection of
human rights of the poor and the
marginalised in Chhattisgarh and India.
Initiated to human rights movement
when he was a member of P.U.C.L.
team investigating police firing of
workers of Rajnandgaon B.N.C.Mills in1984.
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People¶s Union for Civil Liberties
(PUCL) http://www.pucl.org
National Seminar in October 1976 (during the ³National Emergency´)inaugurated by Acharya Kripalani.
´An organization free from political ideologies, so that people belonging to various political parties may cometogether on one platform for
the defence of Civil Libertiesand Human Rights.µ
Accepts no money from any funding agency, Indian or foreign.
Founder: Jaya PrakashNarayan
President: K.G. Kannabiran
6 Vice Presidents
Binayak Sen (Chhattisgarh)
Mathew Manakattu (Kerala)
Prabhakar Sinha (Bihar)Ravi Kiran Jain (UP)
Yogesh Kamdar (Mumbai)
Sudha Ramalingam (TN and Puduseri)
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Protecting Human Rights in
Chhattisgarh Right to Food campaign: Binayak is on
Executive committee for Right to Food
petition.
Chhattisgarh Bio-diversity Security Forum:
Protest against Syngenta.
Probes into custodial death: Supela
episode.
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Probes into land acquisitions by corporates.
Legal aid to undertrials.
Investigations into the human rights issues
related to the crisis in Bastar.
Protests against the Chhattisgarh Special Public
Security Act.
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Frontline,
March 2006
" These senseless killings are unfortunate and must stop.
Both sides should sit down to talk and find a way to peace"
said Binayak Sen, a PUCL activist in Raipur
(source: PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. Writing inthe magazine FRONTLINE, Volume 23 - Issue 05 :: Mar. 11 - 24, 2006)
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W hat was Binayak Sen doing in Chattisgarh,for the
people of Chhattisgarh, for 30 years?
Building hospital still being successfully run by mine
& factory workers.
Training people in villages to look after the health of their own communities.
Running free clinics in areas where medical
facilities are not available.
Providing education to tribal children.
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W hat was Binayak Sen doing in Chattisgarh,for the
people of Chhattisgarh, for 30 years?
Improving agriculture, protecting biodiversity.
Helping, advising, contributing to the StateGovernment¶s Community Health Programmes.
Defending the rights of citizens, especially the poor
and the marginalised.
Ensuring proper treatment of under-trial prisoners.
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What did he get inreturn?
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From his college in 2004
The Paul Harrison Award for outstanding
contribution to health care in rural areas.
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R.R. Khaitan Award from Indian Academy
of Social Sciences in 2007.
Jonathan Mann Award from Global HealthCouncil.
Dr. Sen could not take these awards in
person.
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Paul Harrison Award
CITATI ON
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From the Government of
Chhattisgarh in 2007
Arrest under the Chattisgarh Special
Public Security Act 2005
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May 14, 2007:
Dr. Binayak Sen Arrested in Chhattisgarh
Under µPublic Security Act¶
WHY ??!!
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Binayak Sen
Worked constructively and untiringly for the poor living in some of the most difficult
regions of the country.
Worked in the public domain, and with
constructive engagement with the
Government
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With democratic institutions
Spoke against violence.
Never committed a single unlawful act.
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Binayak Sen
Raised not only the issue of health as a
basic human right.
But also ««
The protection of human rights as a criticaldeterminant of the health of a people.
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Binayak raised issues without
fear or favor « Against the Congress Government : The
protection of land and livelihood rights of
tribals to be displaced by the Steel plant at
Nagarnar
Against the BJP Government : For human
rights violations in the ongoing SalwaJudum campaign in Dantewada.
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What is the price to be paid for voicing
dissent peacefully and raising issuesdemocratically in a free country ?
Detention under an Act which considersany kind of dissent, or disobedience, even
unlinked with any violence as an
Unlawful activity. General ³tendency´ to disobedience can
be punished. No overt act is necessary.
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The protests against Binayak Sen¶s arrest.
Widespread and continuing««.
Numerous organisations,
Hundreds of leading citizens, intellectuals,and medical academics.
Thousands of doctors, medical students,
common people in chattisgarh,
Protests in tens of Indian cities and across
the world«««.
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Amidst nation-wide and international protest
Dr. Sen was granted bail by a vacation
bench of the Supreme Court on May 20 ,
2009.
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On December 24, 2010 the district sessions
court of Raipur sentenced Binayak to life
imprisonment. He is guilty of sedition
according to the court.
WHY THE STATE CONSIDERS DR. SEN
DANGEROUS??
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Chhattisgarh is rich in minerals
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Mineral reserves
Iron ore, coal, bauxite, lime stone
Only state having tin ore reserve
Gold, diamond and corundum reservesdiscovered.
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Most of the mineral reserves are in
forest.
44% of the land of Chhattisgarh is under
forest cover.
21% of India is forest.
8% of India¶s population is tribal.
33% of Chhattsigarh¶s population is tribal.
Tribals reside mostly in the forest villages.
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Forest area of Chhattisgarh
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Surge of Industrialisation
Government plans to set up
Over 60 coal-based power plants
generating 50,000 MW electricity (state¶s
requirment is 5000 MW).
Over 40 new steel plants
Large Cement factories.
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State intends to displace the tribals
Tribals fight back
State raised a private army²Salwa Judum
Villagers confined in camps to µprotectthem from maoists¶.
Actually to evict them from their villages.
Hundreds are killed in µcivil war¶ betweenSalwa Judum and Maoists.
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Binayak despises violence
He is against terror both red (maoist terror)
and white (state terror)
As National Vice-president and
Chhattisgarh State General Secretary of
P.U.C.L., he led and assisted many fact-
finding teams exposing the state terror.
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HE IS DANGEROUS
Binayak is dangerous for the state
because he exposes state terror.
because he opposes state¶s notion of
µdevelopment¶.
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When I give food to the
poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor
have no food, they call
me a Communist.
- Dom Helder Pessoa Camara, former
Roman Catholic archbishop of Olinda and
Recife, Brazil
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´First They CameµFirst they came for the
Communists, and I didn·t
speak up because I wasn·t aCommunist.
Then they came for the Jews, and
I didn·t speak up because I
wasn·t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn·t speak up because I
was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by
that time there was nobody left
to speak up.
- Pastor Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984
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SPEAK UP
RESIST
THE SILENT
EMERGENCY
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