JP hospital staff protest, resume work in afternoon

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 Protesting against alleged attack on nurses by the relatives of patient on Monday night, the doctors and other staff of Jai Prakash hospital did not work in the first half of Tuesday. According to sources, due to lack of beds in the hospital, nurse Ambika Naik and Sinthiya made patient Mamta Singh lie on a bench outside the ward and administered IV fluid to her there only. Agitated over it, the patient’s husband, Surendra Singh along with his relatives started arguing with the nurses and attacked them. The nurses trying to escape, bolted themselves in a room for over two hours. On complaint of hospital staff, Habibganj police made Singh and his relatives leave the hospital on Tuesday. Hospital staff complained to the hospital Superintendent Dr Veena Sinha about the matter on Tuesday.   

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