A 56-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting doctors and misbehaving with nursing staff at the Jag Pravesh Chandra Hospital in Northeast Delhi’s Usmanpur area.
This comes in the wake of protests carried out by doctors to ensure safety for healthcare workers following the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata hospital and a week after the Health Ministry issued guide lines that if any hospital staff is attacked by anyone the FIR in the matter should be filed within six hours.
According to police officials on Thursday, the man had come with his 52 year old wife Sameena Khan to the hospital for treatment on Wednesday night when he allegedly assaulted doctors. The husband runs a spare part shop.
The man also allegedly also made a derogatory remark regarding the Kolkata case while asking why medics in Delhi were concerned about it. "What happened if a girl died in Kolkata? Why are you concerned about it in Delhi?" the FIR read.
As the accused threatened the doctors and abused them, hospital staffers recorded it on their mobile phones. According to the FIR, the accused's wife was given medication by the doctor on duty based on her complaints but her husband refused those and instead suggested his own mode of treatment, a police official said.
"A Person came to the casualty around 9:00 pm on Wednesday and the patient was given medication according to the complaints of the patient (his wife). But he refused the treatment given by casualty doctors on duty. He told the doctors to give his wife a particular injection. He then started hurling abuses at doctors due to which the work got affected," read the FIR.
Dr Rajneesh, a junior resident at the hospital said that when the hospital staffers ignored the man's suggestions, he became violent and started misbehaving with the doctors. "We tried to pacify him but he started abusing us and assaulted some of us. He also misbehaved with our nursing staff," the doctor said.
The FIR claimed that the accused shouted on the hospital premises, hampering the treatment of other patients, and destroyed government property. He forcefully went inside the doctors' duty room and provoked other people to beat the medics, it claimed. Eight persons including the doctors and patients suffered injuries in the incident.
"After this incident he forcefully came inside the Doctors Duty room and started shouting and abusing. He also started provoking other attendants to beat the doctors. He physically assaulted the doctors on duty," FIR read.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (northeast) Joy Tirkey said an FIR under BNS sections 221 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 221 (1) voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty and 132 (use of criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) was registered at New Usman Police Station. Further investigation is underway, the police officer said.
