2nd year PG medical student beaten up by patient, kin at Vellore Medical College; Suffers neck injury

Vellore: In a shocking incident, a second-year post-graduate medical student at the Government Medical College Hospital (GMCH) Vellore recently became the victim of alleged physical assault by a patient and her male companion.

The doctor was physically assaulted after he raised concerns about the presence of male visitors in the women's ward. The Vellore Taluk police have arrested the accused woman and her companion in response to the doctor's complaint.

A video of the incident circulating on social media shows a 36-year-old woman and her companion assaulting the doctor who is a second-year post-graduate medical student. The footage also captures the patient resorting to using her slippers to hit the doctor.

The alleged assault resulted in the doctor suffering neck injuries and receiving treatment at the hospital.

The attack occurred after a fight broke out between the duo and the doctor when the male friend of the patient was asked to not sit on the bed and leave immediately since it was a women's ward.

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Based on the doctor's complaint, the Vellore Taluk police on Monday arrested the woman and her companion under The Tamil Nadu Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage or Loss to Property) Act, 2008, and sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

According to the police, the female patient was admitted to the hospital for a urinary tract infection, a week ago. She was getting treatment at the women’s ward in the first block of the hospital.

As per The Hindu news report, the patient's companion visited her in the ward on Monday evening. When the on-duty doctor was doing rounds at the hospital's ward, he claimed to have witnessed the man lying on the patient's bed. 

Following this, the doctor asked where the patient was and the man said that she had gone to the restroom. Subsequently, the doctor objected to the presence of male visitors in the women’s ward and asked him to leave the ward immediately. This led to a disagreement between the doctor and the man. 

Shortly after, the patient joined in and engaged in a verbal altercation with the doctor. Subsequently, the video footage revealed the patient and her visitor physically assaulting the doctor by slapping him and striking him with slippers.

The video also showed hospital staff intervening in the altercation and ending the fight by separating both parties. Later, the police reached the spot after receiving information from the hospital authorities and took note of the situation. 

Meanwhile, the hospital authorities confirmed that "According to hospital rules, male visitors were not allowed inside the women's ward."

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