On-duty doctor attacked by drunk patient at Thalassery general hospital

Later, the doctor filed a complaint against the patient at the police station, demanding immediate arrest of him. 

He was arrested soon after and produced before the court, which remanded him to judicial custody. The accused was shifted to the Kozhikode Medical College for further treatment.

As incidents of attacks on doctors were on the rise in the state, the government recently amended the Hospital Protection Act and included stringent penal provisions.

The strict laws were implemented after a woman doctor, Dr Vandana Das, was recently hacked to death by a patient at a government hospital in Kottarakkara in Kollam district.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that a house surgeon at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) in Chennai had been allegedly stabbed in his neck by a patient over an argument, following which nearly 100 house surgeons of the hospital staged a protest demanding round-the-clock security.

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