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A acceptable of Youth Congress workers stormed the authoritative residence of Health Minister Veena George aboriginal connected Saturday (February 21, 2026), catching the Thiruvananthapuram City Police unawares and eliciting beardown protestation from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)].
The protestation occurred minutes aft Ms George near to be a relation successful her constituency, Aranmula, successful Pathanamthitta district, astatine astir 7.15 a.m.
The protestors broke unfastened the gate, astonishing the 2 officers connected defender duty, placed a ceremonial wreath astatine the beforehand doorway of the location and staged a sit-in protestation connected the verandah. Subsequently, a ample constabulary posse from the Cantonment constabulary presumption rushed to the spot and arrested the workers.
The City Police Commissioner, K. Karthick, has ordered an enquiry into the quality nonaccomplishment and deficiency of preparedness connected the portion of the section instrumentality enforcement.
The constabulary person booked the agitators for transgression trespass, demolition of nationalist property, and obstruction of authorities officials successful the discharge of their duties nether the applicable sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita (BNS). They volition soon nutrient the subjects aft a aesculapian introspection astatine the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-III successful Thiruvananthapuram.
The trespass connected Ms George’s residence was the latest incidental successful the escalating Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) run against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) pursuing the startling find of an artery forceps successful the abdomen of a pistillate who underwent country astatine the Government Medical College Hospital, Alappuzha, successful 2021.
The Health Department had travel nether terrible disapproval aft the woman’s household alleged that the aesculapian assemblage authorities failed to analyse her post-operative distress properly, contempt paying alleged backhanders to the surgeon. The pistillate is owed for a remedial country astatine a backstage infirmary successful Ernakulam.
Ms George has assured the patient’s relatives that the authorities would underwrite her aesculapian expenses. The Director of Medical Education, precocious Friday (February 20, 2026), suspended J Shahida, the gynaecologist who performed the country and the attendant unit nurse, P.S. Dhanya. The authorities besides constituted a four-member squad of specializer doctors to analyse the matter.
Senior Congress person Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said the Youth Congress had protested to item the diminution of the nationalist wellness assemblage successful Kerala. He said the concern had astir disadvantaged mean citizens, who could ill-afford specialised attraction successful costly backstage hospitals.
Ms George termed the aesculapian negligence arsenic a one-off event. So far, determination person been 43 incidents of specified one-off events successful publically funded hospitals. Deaths and injuries caused owed to aesculapian negligence are the norm successful Kerala’s nationalist wellness sector”, Mr. Radhakrishnan said.
Former Health Minister and Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] Central Secretariat member, P.K. Sreemathy, termed the mode of protestation villainous. “The Congress attacked a pistillate holding precocious bureau astatine her authoritative residence. Ms George escaped by a whisker”, she said.
CPI(M) State Committee subordinate and General Education Minister V. Sivankutty accused Congress of resorting to theatrical enactment to beforehand a mendacious communicative astir Kerala’s storied wellness assemblage to mislead voters up of the Assembly polls.
