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Written By: Admin | Published : September 4, 2012 9:47 PM IST
Junior doctors in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh resorted to violence, damaged cars and thrashed people, forcing police to cane charge them, after some of their colleagues were bashed up by relatives of a patient who died during treatment, officials said. The family blamed the doctors on duty in the encephalitis ward who took strong offence to the allegation and started assaulting the patient's family members. As the news spread hundreds of junior doctors fanned out in the medical college and beat up everyone who came in their way.
As the doctors went on rampage and damaged many cars parked in the campus, police was summoned by the administration and the policemen had to resort to cane charging to disperse the unruly mob of doctors. As many as 228 children have died in the medical college on account of encephalitis in the past year.
Superintendent of Police (SP) City Paresh Pandey told IANS that more than a dozen vehicles were damaged in the melee. A heavy police team has been deployed in the medical college and the situation is under control.
With inputs from IANS
