HYDERABAD: A patient undergoing treatment at Gandhi Hospital allegedly misbehaved and assaulted a female junior doctor on Wednesday.
He was roughed up by hospital staff and others and handed over to police. Police said that the patient is being examined and they are in the process of registering a criminal case.
A patient, who went to the casualty ward at the hospital, allegedly misbehaved with the doctor.Immediately, she alerted the Gandhi Hospital superintendent. After the hospital staff alerted the Chilkalguda police, they took him into custody. “He is suffering from seizures. Even after bringing him to the police station, he continued to have seizures. We are in the process of examining him,” Chilkalguda inspector A Anudeep said. He is a resident of Musheerabad.
CCTV footage of the incident showed that when the doctor was walking past the patient, he suddenly grabbed her apron. As there were several patients and hospital staff present when the incident took place, they immediately intervened and tried to stop him. As he was unrelenting, the staff roughed him up before he was handed over to police.
The Gandhi Junior Doctors Association (JUDA) said that they promptly reported the incident to the hospital superintendent. “In response, the superintendent assured that both a police and an institutional FIR will be filed without delay to address the situation appropriately,” JUDA said in a statement.