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Dr Binayak Sen:
A medical visionary:
His life and work for people inChhattisgarh,& for public health in
India.
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College Day, Bagayam, late 1960s
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Academic qualifications
D.C.H. Pediatrics: Christian Medical College,Vellore.
M.D. Pediatrics: Christian Medical College,Vellore.
One of the top students of the college.
Winner of IDPL National Award for best essayon medical education.
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What did such a bright person do
after qualifying as a specialist?
I. Worked for Tuberculosis patients in ruralHoshangabad district Friends Rural
Centre, Rasulia.
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II. Worked towards creating a hospitalunparalleled in India and possibly the
world.
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Dalli Rajhara, District Durg.
Casual workers of the iron ore mines at
Dalli Rajhara.
Pathetic living conditions.
No access to healthcare.
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Woman leader Kusinbai died during
childbirth on the road to Bhilai after being
denied care in Steel plant hospital in Dalli
Rajhara.
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Shaheed Hospital -Dalli Rajhara
Outcome workers determination, and
cooperation. Raised Rs. 3 lakhs out of
their own daily wages.
Vision of Shankar Guha Niyogi, and
doctors like Dr. Binayak, Dr. Kundu, Dr.
Jana.
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A UNIQUE HOSPITAL IS BORN
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Hospital of the workers, by the workers,
for. everybody
Dispensary
10 bedded hospital in 1983
90 bedded hospital in 2004 with Operationtheater, laboratory, pharmacy.
150 km radius
Major emphasis on demystification, rationality,
cost reduction and equity.
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Shaheed HospitalOf the workers, by the workers
for everyone .
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Observations by a Doctor on
Binayak in Shaheed HospitalI met Dr Sen first in August 1984. He was examining a
child in the verandah of the Shaheed Hospital when thechild passed stools. Binayak went and fetched a mop
and cleaned up the mess.He told me that he was as qualified as anybody else to
handle a mop- so why not?
I cannot understand how that quiet and polite gentleman
can be considered seditious.?
Prabir Chatterji, CMC post-graduate
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III. Worked with under-served village
communities to develop programs toimprove their health, education and
agriculture.
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1989: Rupantar
Raipur: Nagri Sihawa Block.
People displaced by dam-building in the upper
Mahanadi catchment area.
Previous health services practically non-existent.
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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 Chattisgarhs rich
biodiversity
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Womens 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.
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Peoples Union for Civil Liberties
(PUCL) http://www.pucl.org
National Seminar in October 1976(during the NationalEmergency) inaugurated byAcharya Kripalani.
An organization free frompolitical ideologies, so thatpeople belonging to variouspolitical parties may come
together on one platform forthe defence of Civil Libertiesand Human Rights.
Accepts no money from any
funding agency, Indian orforeign.
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 andPuduseri)
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Protecting Human Rights in
Chhattisgarh Right to Food campaign: Binayak is onExecutive 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 andmuststop.
Both sides should sit down to talk and find a way topeace"
saidBinayak 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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What was Binayak Sen doing in Chattisgarh,for the
people of Chhattisgarh, for 30 years?
Building hospitals still being successfully run
by mine & factory workers.
Training people in villages to look after thehealth of their own communities.
Running free clinics in areas where medical
facilities are not available.
Providing education to tribal children.
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What was Binayak Sen doing in Chattisgarh,for the
people of Chhattisgarh, for 30 years?
Improving agriculture, protecting biodiversity.
Helping, advising, contributing to the StateGovernments 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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Paul Harrison
Award
CITATION
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From the Government of
Chhattisgarh in 2007
Arrest under the Chattisgarh Special
Public Security Act 2005
M 14 2007
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May 14, 2007:
Dr. Binayak Sen Arrested in
ChhattisgarhUnder Public Security Act
WHY ??!!
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Binayak Sen
Worked constructively and untiringly forthe 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 onlythe 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 : Theprotection 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 Salwa
Judum 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 tendency to disobedience can
be punished. No overt act is necessary.
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The protests against Binayak Sens 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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Honourable President of India
Honourable Prime Minister of IndiaPresident, National Human Rights Commission
Honourable Governor, Chhattisgarh
Subject:Safetyandliberty ofDr. BinayakSen, GeneralSecretary of
the Chhattisgarh PUCL and Vice-President ofthe National PUCL
who hasbeenimprisoned.
Respected Sirs,
This letter is to request your good offices on behalf of a very respected and beloved old
student of Christian Medical College, Vellore who has been imprisoned this afternoon (May
14, 2007) at Bilaspur for activities in defense of the rights and liberties of tribal people in
Chhattisgarh.
His name is Binayak Sen. He had a distinguished academic career in Vellore, graduating in
Medicine and later acquiring an M.D. in Paediatrics. From 1976 to 1978, he was a faculty
member at the Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health at the Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi. He left his academic appointment to work in a community based rural
health centre in Hoshangabad district of M.P. focusing on problems of tuberculosis.
http://home.cmcvellore.ac.in/petition/petitionpage1.html
Online Petition Started at CMC
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ORGANIZATIONS Supporting Binayak Peoples Union for Civil Liberties
Christian Medical College, Vellore
Medico Friends Circle
Jan Swasthya Abhiyan
National Alliance ofPeoples Movements
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights
All India Drug Action Network
Amnesty International International Federation of Health and Human
Rights Organizations.
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Human rights defender detained amid harassment
of adivasi indigenous rights activistsAmnesty International is concerned over the apparently arbitrary arrest and detention of Dr. Binayak Sen, ahuman rights defender at Raipur in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, and the police harassment of twoother human rights defenders in the state.Dr. Sen is the general secretary of the Chhattisgarh unit of the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties, one ofIndias foremost human rights organizations, and has been instrumental in working on access to health foradivasi communities in the state. On 14 May 2007, he was detained at the Tarbahar Police Station, Bilaspurdistrict, when he was returning from Kolkotta to Raipur. On May 15, he was lodged in Raipur prison. Policeofficials later sealed his residence and searched his clinic. His organic farm in a nearby village was also
searched.Reports say Dr. Sen has been detained under provisions of the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, 2006(CSPSA), and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967), which was amended in 2004 to include keyaspects of the Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (POTA), 2002. The POTA was repealed in 2004 followingwidespread criticism of abuse and human rights violations. The CSPSA and UAPA allow for arbitrary detentionof persons suspected of belonging to an unlawful organization or participating in its activities or givingprotection to any member of such an organization.The PUCL has stated that, apart from Dr. Sen, two other PUCL members, Rashmi Dwivedi and GautamBandopadhyay, have been facing harassment and threats of arrest from the police. The three have beenactively protecting the rights of adivasis (indigenous communities) in the face of escalating violence inChattisgarh between armed Maoists and Salwa Judum, an armed anti-Maoist campaign widely regarded assponsored by the state government. They have been instrumental in bringing to light unlawful killings ofadvisis , sexual assault of adivasi women and disappearances of adivasi youth. The latest instance was theunlawful killing of seven adivisis in Santoshpur village in Bastar-Dantewada area on 31 March. While the state
police had earlier claimed that those killed were Maoists, the state government recently ordered an inquiry intothe killings after which the bodies have been exhumed last week.The PUCL has stated that police allege that Dr. Sen had passed letters from Narayan Sanyal, a detained leaderof the banned CPI (Maoist) who he had met in the Raipur jail last month, to Piyush Guha an alleged member ofCPI (Maoist) under detention since 1 May. Dr. Sen, at the time of his arrest, told the media that this chargehad no basis since the prison authorities were present during for all the meeting with Narayan Sanyal.Amnesty International urges the Government of Chhattisgarh to immediately release Dr. Sen unless he ischarged with a recognizable criminal offence and take urgent steps to end the harassment of the other humanrights defenders in the state.
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Support Pours In ForDr. BinayakSen
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http://savebinayak.freeforums.org/portal.php
An online community dedicated to the
Save Binayak Campaign
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Prominent Citizens Call
for Binayaks ReleaseNoam Chomsky
JusticeSachar
Irfan Habib
Arundhati Roy
Medha Patkar
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Prominent Citizens Call for Binayaks
ReleaseHabib Tanvir
Girish Karnad
Shyam Benegal
Anand Patwardhan
ProfessorPrabhat Patnaik
Romila Thapar
Dr. B. Ekbal
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Demonstration in Coimbatore The Manchester of South India
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Wide Media Coverage
NDTV
Times of India
The Hindu
Frontline Outlook
Deccan Herald
Economic & PoliticalWeekly
MRZine Chennai Vision
Economic Times
Tehelka
Countercurrents
CNN/IBN
Deshbandhu (Hindi) Dinakaran (Tamil)
News International (Pakistan)
KhaleejTimes (Pakistan)
Netherlands RadioWorldwide
Truthout (USA)
Reuters TV
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Dinakaran Daily News (Vellore district), May 23, 2007
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Presumed Guilty
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Owen Dyer (London)
Indiandoctorheldunder
controversialantiterrorismlaw
9 June 2007
Vol 334, No 7605
p 1184-1185
WriterArundhati Royattendsa
rallyforBinayakSen
BinayakSen,anotedcivilrightsactivist,
wasarrested on 14 May .....
DrSenworked onbehalfofindigenous
communitiesfor30 years. Hehelpedto
foundacooperativehospitalformineworkers,theShaheedhospital,andplayeda
bigpartinevolvingastatewideprogramme
oftrainingcommunityhealthworkers.
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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 CameFirst they came for the
Communists, and I didnt
speak up because I wasnt aCommunist.
Then they came for the Jews, and
I didnt speak up because I
wasnt a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didnt speak up because I
was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by
that time there was nobody left
to speak up.