Chennai: 4 persons arrested under Hospital Protection Act
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Chennai: Around 700 Doctors at Madras Medical College, on Saturday went on a Strike , after colleagues of theirs was allegedly verbally assaulted and threatened by 4 men.
The incident goes back to Friday night, where an RTA ( road-traffic accident) patient was brought to the emergency of Madras Medical College and hospital in Chennai. The patient was had minor injury and abrasions and was clinically stable. Owing to the stable nature of the patient, the emergency doctors asked the patient to wait as there were more serious patients in line. Hearing this, the attendants, one of whom was a lawyer and the other an administrator at a political party, began to verbally abuse and threaten the resident doctors. It was only when all the medical doctors of the hospital gathered to support their colleagues, that they backed off.
The incident goes back to Friday night, where an RTA ( road-traffic accident) patient was brought to the emergency of Madras Medical College and hospital in Chennai. The patient was had minor injury and abrasions and was clinically stable. Owing to the stable nature of the patient, the emergency doctors asked the patient to wait as there were more serious patients in line. Hearing this, the attendants, one of whom was a lawyer and the other an administrator at a political party, began to verbally abuse and threaten the resident doctors. It was only when all the medical doctors of the hospital gathered to support their colleagues, that they backed off.
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