A group of doctors and medical students picketed the headquarters of the British Medical Association last Monday, demanding that the BMA's central ethical committee make a statement on the forcefeeding of Irish political prisoners in British jaibs.
The secretary of the BMA, Dr Stevenson, refused to come out and speak to them. He had earlier, in a reply to a letter from Dr Berry Beaumont, declined to answer the points raised by the doctors.
They cinjin that force feeding is contrary to the Declaration af Geneva, which lays down medical ethics. They also state that there is a deterioration in the physical condition of the prisoners, including weight loss, loosening of teeth, loss of hair, and damage to jaws and throat from the force feeding. There is a constant risk of suffocation ASSOCIATION B-M A HOUSE Dr Dominic Costa addresses the picket outside the BMA offices on Monday from inhalation of vomit, opposition in the medical profession to force feeding It Tobowed a letter sent to the BMA on 13 March.
signed by 38 doctors, ranging from general practitioners to professors of medicine.
The Irish Political Hostages Cam paign has scheduled a now plan of action in solidarity with the prisoners. A bie demenstration i being called The picket sbowed the growing place at the eng of June IPHC ACTION Sisters Road Monday, 13 May.