Maharashtra: Patient assaults, stabs doctors at Yavatmal GMC

Two docs of the Vasantrao Naik Government Medical College (GMC) in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal have been assaulted and stabbed with the aid of using a affected person on Thursday night. One of the docs is injured significantly and is present process surgical treatment.

The sufferers were diagnosed as Dr JB Stan Paul and Dr Abhishek Jha. They are each first yr citizens in trendy surgical treatment. The sufferers have been analyzing sufferers withinside the ward as common while a affected person attacked them.

The resident docs affiliation has declared a strike after the assault at the resident docs. According to a assertion with the aid of using the affiliation, “During the nighttime rounds on January five at round 7:30 pm in GMC Yavatmal, a affected person out of nowhere assaulted and stabbed a primary yr resident of trendy surgical treatment with a knife at the neck and injured him badly. Two surgical treatment citizens are injured withinside the assault, out of which one is significantly injured and is present process operation. We have declared a strike.”

Enraged with the aid of using this incident, trainee docs staged a dharna at the health facility premises. The docs raised slogans towards the Yavatmal police and demanded the elimination of the dean.

As quickly because the records approximately the incident became received, the Yavatmal metropolis police reached the spot. According to a police officer, Nand Kumar Pant, “A affected person admitted to the dispensary attacked a doctor. The police has taken him into custody. The relaxation of the research has been started.”