Mob Attacks Two female Junior Doctors Demanding ICU for Patient
Hyderabad: Normally allegations of medical negligence initiate tiffs at the hospitals, but in a recent case at Gandhi hospital, shifting a patient to a concerned ward led to an altercation and an unpleasant situation.
The mob tried to abuse, physically attack and assault two female postgraduate doctors over transferring a patient to ICU. Their attempt was thwarted by security men who intervened and saved an ugly situation.
The incident relates to a patient who was moved to the hospital by a mob after she fell down from a building and suffered multiple injuries. Analyzing her condition, the patient was kept on a ventilator and junior doctors decided to shift her to orthopaedics department’s emergency ward. The mob including relatives of patient demanded that patient to be shifted to ICU instead.
“However, they demanded the patient be shifted to ICU and started to verbally abuse us. Though security personnel intervened, the mob was uncontrollable. We lodged a complaint with police,” one of the junior doctors who was attacked, confirmed to The New Indian Express.
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