To look into assaults carried out against doctors, the Central government has created a committee. This was made possible after the Indian Medical Association gave a representation which highlighted the need for a legislation that protects doctors from such attacks. The committee was made up of representatives from the Law and Justice Ministry, Home Ministry, […]
In yet another incident of doctors being assaulted in India, the relatives of a patient manhandled a doctor in the Government Rajindra Hospital and Medical College, Patiala, Punjab. The incident happened on 13 July. The incident spurred a protest by about 100 PG doctors of the hospital. The protesters claimed that Dr.Manuj Chaudhary was slapped […]
Doctors at the Government Medical College in Amritsar were attacked by relatives of a patient who died in the hospital. The attack was so severe that the arm of one of the doctors-Jagbir Singh was broken. Two other doctors- Sukhdeep Singh and Inderjot Kaur were also attacked. The junior resident doctors of the hospital had […]
We are pretty sure that this isn’t a comprehensive list. Bringing together ALL the stories of doctors getting assaulted by irate relatives of patients etc. in the year so far would probably give our staff writer a serious case of depression. For there are so many grim instances that have materialized in the year that’s […]
Dr. Gouri Shankar Mahapatra of the Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital(CNMCH) was attacked by the relatives of a patient on Wednesday. It happened after the patient, 60 year old Mohammad Kamaluddin died in the hospital. The relatives of Kamaluddin claimed that the death was due to negligence. Dr. Gauri Shankar, a post graduate trainee […]
An article titled ‘Doctor patient relationship: Changing scenario in India’ was published in the Asian Journal of Medical Sciences on the 1st of this month. It was co-written by Sourabh Pau, Senior Resident and Vikas Bhatia, Dean, Professor and Head of Department of Community & Family Medicine of AIIMS, Bhubaneswar. The article explores the reasons […]
The cease work initiated by the junior doctors of SSKM Hospital,Kolkata following the assault on a colleague by a patient’s relative has yielded result. Following the cease work which lasted around 16 hours, the hospital authorities have assured that proper security measures will be installed within the hospital premises. But the authorities did not agree […]