New Delhi: A female resident doctor at Mumbai’s Sion Hospital was reportedly physically assaulted by a group of intoxicated attendants, as per Mirror Now. This incident comes even as protests rage on across the country over a rape-murder case in Kolkata.
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“The patient arrived in casualty after midnight in an intoxicated state with 7-8 relatives. He was involved in an assault before he came to the hospital, and had injury marks on his face… Owing to his injuries, he was given an ENT reference around 3:30 am. Our on-call resident doctor in the ENT department was a female. Following a routine procedure, she undressed the wounds to examine them. That is when the patient started verbally abusing her,” Dr Akshya More, General Secretary of Sion-MARD and BMC-MARD told ANI.
“The relatives, instead of controlling the patient, started verbally abusing the resident doctor. Things escalated to physical assault very quickly… Nurses intervened but by then the doctor had sustained abrasions on her hands. By the time security was called, the patient and the relatives had fled… Such incidents are very frequent and mostly go unreported but we could not let this one slide, especially after what happened in Kolkata,” More said.
Mirror Now in a social media post claimed that the resident doctor was threatened by a group of 5-6 intoxicated attendants who also tried to physically assault her at the hospital on Sunday morning. A police report has been filed regarding the incident. Following the event, the patient and their attendants fled the hospital, the news channel claimed.
