Healthcare services at the Banpur hospital in the district were affected on Monday as doctors resorted to a dharna demanding arrest of the persons who had allegedly thrashed a doctor on Sunday after the death of a patient.
ASHA Workers and hospital staffs also staged a dharna along with the doctors with demands of security and arrest of all the culprits.
Expressing solidarity with the agitating doctors, medicine shop owners in the area kept their shops closed.
Police have so far arrested six persons in connection with the incident, reports said.
Notably, one Prashant Sahu (22) of Khuntapalli village under the Banapur police station got electrocuted at his house.
He was rushed to the Banapur hospital, where the doctor on duty declared him brought dead.
Tension gripped the hospital premises after the incident as the family members of the deceased allegedly beat the doctor claiming that the youth was still alive.
A complaint in this regard was lodged by the doctor with police.