Hours after a drunk patient assaulted a resident doctor at the Government Medical College in Nanded early on Friday, the association of resident doctors in the state, the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) demanded that they should be provided firearms for protection. MARD claimed that it was the 40th incident of violence in a government medical college since last year. The association wrote to Chief Minister of Maharashtra seeking "an immediate provision of firearm licence". "It is our last resort.
We need arms to protect ourselves as the state has failed to do so. This is the seventh incident of violence against an on-duty resident doctor this year," Said the President of MARD. The resident doctors of the Nanded medical college had gone on a sudden strike after Friday's assault, which took place at 3 in the early morning in the emergency area. According to doctors of…
