Panel to Investigate Alleged Slapping Incident at Sonipat Civil Hospital
Sonepat: Chaos erupted at Sonipat Civil Hospital after a Class IV employee posted in the X-ray room accused a female Deputy Civil Surgeon of physical assault. The employee alleged that the doctor slapped him, but the doctor denied the accusation, stating that the employee had acted inappropriately and had been recording videos of her.
Both of them filed a complaint against each other at the police station and also submitted a copy to the Civil Surgeon's office. In response, Civil Surgeon Dr Jayant Ahuja has constituted a board of doctors to inquire into the incident.
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In his complaint, the employee stated that he was working at the hospital in room 61 when the doctor and a staff nurse came to the room at around 10:15 in the morning and started abusing and misbehaving with him. Following this, he opened his mobile phone camera and started recording it. He claimed that the doctor slapped and physically assaulted him in front of staff and patients when he refused to stop recording.
Refuting the allegations, the doctor in her complaint alleged that she went to the Civil Surgeon's office only for routine inspection as the employee was not on duty on Wednesday. As she asked him about his absence yesterday from duty, he started making videos and misbehaving with her and the staff nurse.
When the incident became hectic and intense, the hospital authorities called the police who reached the spot immediately and prevented the situation from escalating further.
Following the incident, all class IV employees resort to protest by boycotting their work. They left the hospital which caused major inconvenience to the patients as the OPD and X-Ray departments were shut down.
Civil Surgeon Dr Jayant Ahuja told The Tribune, "A board has been constituted to inquire into the matter. prima facie it appeared to be some old tussle between the doctor and Class IV employees from CHC, Kharkhoda."
