With cases of attack by patient's kin on the rise, medicos want hospital protection act implemented. Savitha, who had trouble breathing, underwent a surgery at a city hospital to clear the fluid in her lungs earlier this year. Six months later, the 32-year-old developed complications and died, triggering a spate of violent events during which the surgeon was assaulted and the hospital vandalized by her kin. His reputation all but gone, the doctor took to the bottle.
Today he is battling a drinking problem. With such incidents of violence and repeated attacks on hospitals and doctors following negative results after treatment becoming common, doctors in Tamil Nadu have asked the state government to take serious cognizance of the issue and institute a committee to implement the Hospital Protection Act, passed in 2008, effectively. As per the act, any attack against a duty-bound doc tor,…
