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Dr. Sunil Rao is employed with the Royal Bahrain Hospital as a specialist in internal medicine. Recently he tweeted and posted on social media his support for Israel. His posts came at a time when around 3000 people were killed in Gaza in Israel’s retaliatory strike over a Hamas attack.
The hospital on seeing the posts on social media terminated Dr. Sunil Rao on the ground that his posts were offensive to society, that his ideology was personal and did not reflect the opinion of the hospital. The hospital said that there was a violation in their code of conduct and therefore terminated the doctor with immediate effect.
Dr. Rao issued an apology and acknowledged that his remarks were insensitive but stated that as a doctor, all lives mattered to him and that he respected the country, its people and religion as he has been living there for the past ten years.
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