Delhi police warns public on Assaulting Doctors, Medical fraternity hails call

Published On 2017-09-09 03:44 GMT   |   Update On 2022-12-13 12:03 GMT

New Delhi: The medical practitioners working in the capital have lauded the public notice issued by the Delhi Police stating that assault of a doctor will be a non-bailable criminal offence and attract imprisonment of three years, or fine or both.


The notice published in newspapers mentions: "A doctor is a life saver. Owing to several reasons, your doctor may be under extreme pressure and thus have regard and faith in him. An assault upon a doctor is a Non-Bailable Criminal Offence and attracts imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or fine or both under the Medicare Service Personnel and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property) Act, 2008."


The President of AIIMS RDA, Dr Harjit Singh Bhatti, hailed the initiative and stressed on creating more awareness among the public so that the relatives of the patients keep faith on doctors and do not take law into their hands.


"Besides newspapers, sign boards mentioning the same should be put up in all hospitals across the country. Awareness drives must be carried out on TV," Bhatti said.


Doctors across the country have been demanding enhanced security on hospital premises over increasing instances of attacks on them by relatives of the patients in the emergency and OPD wards.


Earlier they have gone on strike too to protest such assaults.


In the month of March Medical, Dialogues team reported an assault case where a Dhule doctor was mercilessly beaten up by attendants of a patient, causing the doctor to land up in the ICU with multiple fractures and loss of vision in one eye. After the whole Maharastra medical doctors protest against it and announced the strike.


In support of the same, the all India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) came up with in the support of Maharashtra doctors.


Read also: Maharashtra Doctors Intensify Strike; get countrywide support from Doctors


 
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