HYDERABAD: After two female junior doctors and a duty doctor at Osmania General Hospital (OGH) were allegedly assaulted by four attendants Sunday night, close to 240 house surgeons and junior doctors decided to boycott services in OGH and its affiliated hospitals in the city from Monday.
The alleged attack on the doctors took place at 8 pm on Sunday. One female doctor was reportedly slapped five times and another junior doctor’s arm was twisted by the attendants. The duty doctor was reportedly beaten with a chair. A junior doctor said that, despite the presence of police, an attendant threatened to stab a female junior doctor when she stepped out of the hospital.
According to a junior doctor at OGH who did not wish to be named, the attendants were accompanying a 70-year-old woman admitted to the Intensive Medical Care unit of the hospital. “Chances of her survival were only two to five per cent and the prognosis was explained to the attendants. We were giving her Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation when she died. While entry is restricted to only one attendant, four of them barged in pushing aside security guards.
They twisted the arm of a junior doctor, slapped another junior doctor five times and struck the duty doctor with a chair,” the junior doctor said. The junior doctors attacked were Dr Sandhya, Dr Sanjana while duty doctor was Dr Raja Ramesh. The injured doctors were treated at the hospital. A complaint was lodged with Afzalgunj Police. It was learnt that some hospital authorities tried to brush off the attack as just another incident in the life of doctors. However, agitated junior doctors alleged that this was the third such incident at OGH this month. “We filed written complaints with the hospital authorities but no action was taken,” a junior doctor said.