A doctor Sahil Nayan Rajnish posted at the Health & Wellness Centre Haidernagar was assaulted by a mob of people on Tuesday evening about 90 Kms away from Daltonganj, when he after examining a road accident victim declared him ‘brought dead’.
Sources said Rajnish has suffered severe head injuries and was rushed to some private hospital in Ranchi. Sources said the mob assaulted him as he was not present in the centre and when he came that too very late by then the road accident victim was dead.
Sources said the mob felt had this doctor been in the Centre the victim Mithilesh Ram’s life could have been saved.
Civil surgeon Palamu Dr John F Kennedy said Rajnish has sustained brain injuries and is in a hospital Ranchi. Kennedy said he has this report that Rajnish was at the centre when the road accident victims were brought in there.
He said the mob beat him up in presence of the police. Kennedy said the other injured were treated well in the centre.
Doctors and para medical staff of Health & Wellness Centre Haidernagar and sub divisional hospital Hussainabad today went on strike in protest against this assault of a doctor on duty there.
Kennedy feared this strike may spread over the entire Palamu district.
SDPO Hussainabad Vijay Kumar said police have found that Rajnish was not available at the centre when the road accident victims were brought in there on Tuesday evening January 14.
The mob took too bad of his absence as one victim Ram did not survive and the mob believed he died just because no doctor treated him in time. The mob’s anger and fury was for the absence of Dr Rajnish.
About police present there did not do anything to save the doctor SDPO said, “This would be thoroughly inquired into as to how this happened.”