Doctors at AIIMS, New Delhi & top government hospitals will be given daily martial arts training in response to a sharp rise in reports of violence against medical practitioners in India. About 1,500 resident doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi will be given taekwondo classes in the hospital’s gym every evening from 15 May. The president of the resident doctors’ association at the hospital said violence against doctors was growing and the government is not taking necessary steps to decrease it.
Prevention is better than the cure, and if the government is not providing adequate security, then you have to take measures to save your life or vital organs. According to the Lancet medical journal, a 2016 study carried out in a Delhi hospital found that 40% of resident doctors had been exposed to violence at work in the previous 12 months. The Indian…
