Since last decade incidences of assault on doctors are increasing tremendously and that causes serious hampering of health care systems. Doctors are working in pressurized condition and ultimately it affects their performance. Government has to take steps to prevent downgrade of health system and should make necessary provisions in legal system that can prevent assault on doctors. At present many states like Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh has their own ordinance to prevent assault on doctors but it seems to be ineffective, then definitely Govt.
has to make an effective national law to tackle this situation. At present state ordinances prescribes 3 years of imprisonments for offenders and offence is non bailable. But according to CrPc 437 police office has power to grant bail in nonbailable offences in which provision of punishment is less than 7 years except in some conditions, so accused…
