Two arrested for assaulting a doctor in Assam's Hailakandi, second case in a week

  • | Saturday | 5th June, 2021

The arrested Rumpi Malakar and Himanshu had admitted their patient Chitta Malakar in a critical condition to the hospital on May 27, who later died.

After the recent incident of attack on a doctor in Hojai, Assam, the incident of attack on a doctor has also come to the fore in Hailakandi. In this case, the police have arrested two people including a woman on Friday; both have been arrested for misbehaving with a doctor posted at SK Roy Civil Hospital in Hailakandi. According to Hailakandi Superintendent of Police Ramandeep Kaur, the arrested woman has been admitted to the Covid ward of the hospital after she contracted the virus.

According to police, the arrested Rumpi Malakar and Himanshu had admitted their patient Chitta Malakar in a critical condition to the hospital on May 27, who later died. After the death of the patient, both had misbehaved with the medical officer Dr. Gaurav Bhattacharjee. The doctor had lodged an FIR in this case at Hailakandi Sadar police station. After that, the police investigated the matter and arrested the relatives of the patient. It is worth noting that earlier on June 1 in Hojai, 24 people were arrested by the police in connection with the attack on the doctor.

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Dr. Gaurav Bhattacharjee said, `The patient had serious breathing problems. He died within minutes of reaching the hospital. We could not even start the treatment. It was his job to declare the patient dead, but some people started shouting at me and some family members started thrashing me. I was saved by my colleagues, but the police did not take any immediate action against the culprits. Not only me, but my colleagues are also afraid to go to the hospitals as we can face such attacks at any time.


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