On Day 4 of doc strike pediatrician beaten up at Sion hospital
March 23, 2017  09:35
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In a development that's likely to make the ongoing doctors' agitation in Maharashtra worse, a resident doctor at Mumbai's Sion Hospital was attacked last night.


A pediatrician working in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the civic-run Sion Hospital was beaten up the family of a child. The child is said to be recuperating.


A police complaint has been filed against three women, news agency ANI reported.


Resident doctors at the civic-run Sion Hospital stopped reporting to duty from March 19 evening to protest recent incidents of assault on doctors. A doctor was allegedly beaten up by the relatives following a patients death at the Sion Hospital.

A similar incident took place at government hospital in Dhule some days ago.

In a letter to the Dean of Sion Hospital, the resident doctors said they were unable to report to the duty as they couldnt concentrate on the work. They stopped working from 7 pm. The current spate of attacks on resident doctors is worrisome. We are not able to concentrate, hence we have decided not to report to the duty (at Sion Hospital).There is urgent need to beef up security at government hospitals, an office-bearer of Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors said.

In Delhi, around 1,200 junior doctors at the countrys premier medical institute, the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, turned up for work on Wednesday wearing driving helmets, to express solidarity with doctors protesting in Maharashtra.

This protest is part of the nation-wide SavetheSaviours campaign demanding a safe working environment for all government doctors.

Resident doctors in Delhi will go on mass leave on March 23 (Thursday) between 9 a.m. and 4 pm. Only emergency duty schedule of resident doctors will be followed during this time, This step is being taken in view of the increasing instances of assaults on doctors and to show solidarity towards our colleagues from Maharashtra. And we condemn the action taken by the Govt of Maharashtra against doctors, said a release issued by the Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) in Delhi.


Image: Protesting doctors at Sion hospital on Tuesday.
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