[Reader-list] Media Disinformation and AMRI Staff

[A. Mani]

250 AMRI staff members quit
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
Kolkata, December 15, 2011
 Around 250 staff members of Kolkata’s Advanced Medicare Research
Institute (AMRI), where 93 people were killed in a blaze last week,
have resigned en masse citing “security reasons”. The employees blamed
a feeling of insecurity and frustration over the nature of media
coverage following
the fire in the hospital for quitting. Media reports claimed several
doctors and staff fled from the hospital as soon as the fire was
detected, leaving ailing patients to die.

“When the fire broke out, many of us were not in our uniforms. But we
tried to rescue patients. Many of us who were engaged in rescue
operations were identified as local slum dwellers. Media reports
projected the entire AMRI staff as villains who left helpless patients
to die,” said Shinoj, a hospital attendant.

Most of those who quit are from Kerala.

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