Shielding Doctors from Violence
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What is the current status?
- Doctors are increasingly facing ‘malicious prosecution’ and violence.
- A doctor in Dausa, Rajasthan committed suicide after an FIR alleging misconduct and negligence was registered against her.
- Following this incident, senior police officers were transferred and the Station House Officer was suspended.
- In 2019, following an assault of a doctor in Kolkata, the doctors started a strike in West Bengal. This soon snowballed into a nation-wide protest. The doctor had been assaulted by the relatives of a patient who had died.
- Many of these incidents could have been avoided and these aren’t isolated incidents either. There is a steady trickle of reports of violence against doctors and othe
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