Doctor assaulted: Junior doctors boycott duties at Chest Hospital
After a doctor attacked by patient’s kin, junior doctors protested and demanded that the State government should immediately deploy SPF personnel at all the teaching colleges
Hyderabad: Junior doctors at Government Chest Hospital on Monday boycotted their duties protesting against assault on a second year medico Dr N Krishnan by relatives of a patient on Sunday.
The protesting doctors are demanding that the State government should immediately deploy SPF personnel at all the teaching colleges. Baring emergency services, all other medical services including OPs, ward duties and elective surgeries were boycotted by medicos on Monday.
The members of Telangana Junior Doctors Association (TJUDA) have condemned the attack and demanded immediate deployment of SPF at all the teaching hospitals.
Dr Krishnan from the department of Pulmonology, Osmania Medical College, was attending to a 52-year-old patient at Chest Hospital when at least seven to eight relatives allegedly attacked him and later dragged him outside the ward for another round of beating.
Following the incident, Dr Krishnan lodged an FIR at SR Nagar police station on Sunday evening. The members of TJUDA and other associations representing doctors have maintained that they would intensify protests in case the culprits are not arrested at the earliest.
