NRS Medical College: Junior Residents on strike after Mob assaults colleagues including a woman doctor
Kolkata: Junior doctors at the state-run Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital went for a strike and stopped working at the emergency services department for several hours in protest against the alleged assault on their colleagues, including a woman doctor, by relatives of a patient who died in the facility. Three junior doctors sustained minor injuries during the alleged assault.
The incident happened on 26 August, when a critically ill 40-year-old patient identified as one, Pervez Hussein, was brought to the emergency ward by a group of about 30 people.
The patient was recommended a CT scan and he died while being taken for the test. The mob accompanying him then went on the rampage and allegedly assaulted the junior doctors present at the spot, including a woman, confirms a recent report by PTI.
“The patient had been brought in with severe chest pain and he was not treated for about half an hour. He died immediately after one doctor injected a medicine,” the patient's cousin alleged.
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