Doctor attacked at Gandhi Hospital

A Post Graduate medico in general medicine from Gandhi Hospital was allegedly attacked by an attendant of a deceased Covid-19 positive patient on Tuesday evening at the hospital’s Acute Medical Care (AMC) ward.

The 55-year-old deceased Covid patient was on Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine due to breathing difficulties. According to the hospital medicos, while on his way to the toilet, the patient collapsed and died within a few minutes. On being informed about the development, a close relative who was the attendant of the deceased, attacked the PG medico with a plastic stool and later tried to hit the medico with the iron stand that is used to hang saline bottles.

“The medico took evasive action and immediately ran for his life. The health care workers at Gandhi Hospital are under tremendous pressure



because it’s a centralised facility to treat Covid-19 positive patients from across the State. There is a dire need to decentralise and set-up Covid treatment facilities in the districts,” members of the Telangana State Junior Doctors Association (TJUDA), Gandhi Hospital, said.

The TJUDA members alleged there was no police presence to provide protection to the attacked medico, who had to run for his life. The incident instantly triggered protests from members of TJUDA, who boycotted their duties and took up dharna.

The members of TJUDA, apart from decentralising Covid-19 treatment facilities, are also demanding immediate deputation of Special Protection Force (SPF) at all the ICUs and floors of Gandhi Hospital. They also demanded that an FIR be registered on the person who had attacked.