Patient grabs woman doctor by hair, bangs head on bed in Andhra hospital
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Hyderabad: A woman junior doctor was attacked by a patient at Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) in Tirupati on Saturday, NDTV reported.
The incident comes days after the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Footage showed the attacker grabbing the doctor by her hair and banging her head on a steel frame of the hospital bed.
Other doctors in the ward came to her rescue by overpowering the attacker and taking him away.
The intern in her letter to SVIMS director cum vice-chancellor Dr RV Kumar said she was on duty in the Emergency Medicine Department when she was ‘unexpectedly attacked by a patient, Bangaru Raju, who approached me from behind, pulled my hair and began forcibly banging my head against the steel rod of a cot.’
Demanding security measures for the safety of staff, she wrote, ‘If patient had been armed with a sharp weapon, the situation could have escalated with severe consequences.’
Responding to the incident, doctors of the hospital staged a protest, demanding safety at workplace.
A postgraduate trainee doctor was raped and killed on duty in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata days ago, causing widespread protest across the nation.
The incident at SVIMS, Tirupati, raises doubts about the safety of doctors on duty.