Protesters at Jantar Mantar find relief at free clinics set up by doctors
Doctors have established free medical camps at the Jantar Mantar protest site in India to treat demonstrators injured during recent clashes. The volunteers provide essential care, including wound dressing and physiotherapy, for those reluctant to visit formal hospitals.
Why it matters
The presence of volunteer medical support highlights the humanitarian aspects of civil unrest and the role of grassroots healthcare in protest movements.
Sunny Deval, 29, with a band-aid on the entire length of his right forearm, walked into a makeshift tent made of yellow tarpaulin at the Jantar Mantar protest site and complained that his hand was paining again.
Soon, a doctor behind the tables filled with medicines, with a stethoscope around his neck, signalled him to come to the end of the other end of the tables and made him sit on a chair and started unwrapping the band-aid.
Throughout the day, scores of people walked into the makeshift clinic to get ORS, medicines, band-aids or help with injuries. Doctors at the “free seva camp” said that since the lathicharge on Monday (July 20, 2026), they have treated at least 150-200 people, who suffered injuries during the march.
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