UP violence: Intern Doctor gets Beaten Up for Denying to Fabricate Facts in Medico-Legal Examination report
Lucknow: In a shocking incident of violence against health professionals, an intern doctor and other on-duty staff of Balarampur Hospital, Lucknow were recently assaulted by a group of miscreants.
The miscreants allegedly attacked the on-duty intern doctor after he refused to fabricate the facts in the medico-legal examination report of a patient, who was brought to the emergency of the hospital.
After the incident, the MBBS Intern Dr Chandra Prakash Singh lodged a complaint against the miscreants at Wazirganj Police Station. Besides, the Hospital Administration has also given a complaint to the police on behalf of the intern doctor to initiate action against the miscreants.
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The instance of violence took place on Sunday and the miscreants involved in this were allegedly lawyers. Providing details regarding the incident, the Chief Medical Superintendent of Balarampur Hospital, Dr. GP Gupta informed Dainik Bhaskar that five lawyers arrived at the emergency at around 3.30PM on Sunday. They were accompanying a 47-year-old man, who had an old wound on his head.
According to Dr. Gupta, the lawyers allegedly asked the on-duty intern Dr. Singh to write more injuries in the medico-legal report. When the Intern refused, the angry lawyers allegedly started abusing the doctor. On protesting, the intern doctor was thrown down and was beaten up.
Noticing the doctor getting beaten up, emergency doctors and other staff rushed to the spot. However, the miscreants started misbehaving with them as well. Meanwhile, one staff ringed the bell for emergency siren at the hospital. The daily adds that the lawyers also pushed and abused the police who reached the spot.
This entire incident created an atmosphere of panic in the emergency and the treatment of patients stopped for half an hour. The video of the incident was taken and shared on social media. In the video, a mass gathering can be seen and some of the miscreants are seen beating someone up.
Violence against doctors and healthcare workers has been one of the most important and unsolved issues of the medical fraternity. Numerous incidents of violence have been reported over the years.
These instances reached their peak earlier last year when Rajasthan-based Dr Archana Sharma committed suicide after being booked for the murder of a patient who had died due to Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH).
Doctors are being beaten up daily by unruly attendants but have got only limited relief in terms of law. Even though the doctors have demanded Central Doctors Protection Act, however the same has still been out of their reach.
Recently, Dr. Vandana Das, a doctor in Kerala succumbed to death after being attacked by a patient. Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the 23-year-old house surgeon, Dr Das was attacked by a prisoner who was brought to government taluk hospital in Kottarakkara in Kerala's Kollam district for treatment of his injuries. After being stabbed by the patient with scissors, Dr. Das was immediately taken to a private hospital in Kottarakkara, where she died while undergoing treatment.
While the Kerala Government has released an ordinance promising stricter penalties for assaulting healthcare professionals, there is no central policy in this regard. Earlier the Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya confirmed that the Central Government is not enacting separate legislation to prohibit violence against doctors and other healthcare professionals.
Commenting on the recent incident of attack on the Intern Doctor in Uttar Pradesh, Dr. Karan Juneja, a physician and social activist who serves as chairman of IMA Haryana told Medical Dialogues, "After the horrifying death of the intern doctor in Kerala, now an intern doctor has reportedly been attacked in Uttar Pradesh. This only indicates that even medical students are not safe from instances of violence against doctors anymore. This demands the immediate intervention of the authorities."
