Uttarakhand: Doctors Shot Dead, State Practitioners on Strike
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Dehradun: The entire medical community of the State have declared a Strike, after a Pediatrician was brutally shot dead while attending to patients at Community Health Centre on 20th April, 2016.
The incident goes back to yesterday, when Pediatrician Dr Sunil Kumar Singh was attending to a child patient, while being on OPD duty at Jashpur Government Hospital in Uttarakhand's Udham Singh Nagar district. At this time, around 10.30 am in the morning, two motor cycle borne assailants, reported to be their mid 20s approached the Hospital. One of the assailants went inside and shot the doctor in the chest from point blank range.
With the gunshot, chaos broke at the hospital and it is reported that the assailants escaped taking advantage of the commotion. The staff of the hospital, rushed the injured doctor to a private hospital in Kashipur, but unfortunately, Dr Singh died on the way.
Additional superintendent of police, Kashipur, Kamlesh Upadhyay informed TOI, "The initial findings hint at a personal rivalry but it is still early to arrive at any conclusion." The police official further said that the two sons of Dr Singh were in Delhi and his wife was at Gaya at the time of crime. "Therefore, with family members not in Jaspur, not many facts related to the doctor have yet come to the fore," the SP added.
The incident goes back to yesterday, when Pediatrician Dr Sunil Kumar Singh was attending to a child patient, while being on OPD duty at Jashpur Government Hospital in Uttarakhand's Udham Singh Nagar district. At this time, around 10.30 am in the morning, two motor cycle borne assailants, reported to be their mid 20s approached the Hospital. One of the assailants went inside and shot the doctor in the chest from point blank range.
With the gunshot, chaos broke at the hospital and it is reported that the assailants escaped taking advantage of the commotion. The staff of the hospital, rushed the injured doctor to a private hospital in Kashipur, but unfortunately, Dr Singh died on the way.
Additional superintendent of police, Kashipur, Kamlesh Upadhyay informed TOI, "The initial findings hint at a personal rivalry but it is still early to arrive at any conclusion." The police official further said that the two sons of Dr Singh were in Delhi and his wife was at Gaya at the time of crime. "Therefore, with family members not in Jaspur, not many facts related to the doctor have yet come to the fore," the SP added.
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