Egypt’s Doctors Syndicate has called on police and protesters in Tahrir Square to keep clashes away from the square’s make-shift hospital in order to protect doctors and the injured.
The field hospital has been shelled with tear gas by police, and some protesters have tried to break into it.
The syndicate provides medical and logistical support to the hospital to treat protesters and police personnel.
The Doctors Without Rights movement denounced the security forces’ violent and unjustified handling of the situation vis-à-vis demonstrators, stressing the right to peaceful demonstrations and sit-ins.
The movement also said the Interior Ministry did not only throw tear gas at protesters, but beat them with clubs and shot them with rubber bullets, wounding them in the eyes.
It is also denouncing attempts to arrest victims receiving treatment in the field hospital.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
