Government Rajaji Hospital: Female PG doctor assaulted by patient kin; Doctors stage flash protest
Madhurai: A 31-year-old female PG doctor attached to Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) was assaulted by the kin of a patient, after being asked to take off their shoes before entering the sterile ward. The attack triggered the fellow doctors and nurses, who boycotted OPD services and staged a flash protest demanding an FIR against the two suspects under non-bailable provisions of the Tamil Nadu Hospital Protection (TNHP) Act, 2008.
The incident took place on December 14 (Saturday) when a postgraduate (PG) student doctor, who was on duty at the Labour Theatre (LT) II in the Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC) block of GRH, asked two women, to remove her footwear before entering the sterile ward. The instruction did not go down well with the duo, who had visited there to attend a woman admitted for delivery and they allegedly charged the doctor physically and assaulted her.
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