The nursing staff put together by Maoists have been given their medical education in the tribal Gondi language.
The nursing staff put together by Maoists have been given their medical education in the tribal Gondi language.
Hand-written “medical books”, seized from a Naxal camp at Dabbakunna in Chhattisgarh’s south Bastar district of Dantewada on August 17, have led to the disclosure that the Naxals’ medical staff have been trained, not only to treat cases of minor illness, but also to perform critical surgeries on the grievously wounded.
“We have seized hand-written note books, a complete translation of MBBS course books in Gondi language, in the Naxal camp busted at Dabbkunna recently. Besides these books, surgical instruments and medical equipments have also been found in the camp. The seizures suggested that the Naxals have raised their nursing staff by giving them medical education in the tribal dialect,” Dantewada SP Kamal Lochan Kashyap told this newspaper.
According to the police, many sets of translated versions of the medical books have been seized in the camp. Interestingly, the books taught human anatomy with hand-drawn figures of male and female bodies.
Surgery procedures to be followed in the removal of bullets from the body, in abortion cases and in orthopedic cases have also been detailed in the Gondi dialect.
The “Naxal medical books” have chapters devoted to prescriptions of medicines, explained in the Gondi language but written both in the Devnagiri and Roman scripts.
“We have intelligence inputs that Maoists have roped in one Dr Rafique, a medical degree holder, to train their nursing staff,” another senior police officer posted in Bastar told this newspaper.
