PUNE: The Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) on Friday stopped giving medical assistance to the Pune Cantonment Board’s (PCB) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Cantonment General Hospital for security reasons, two days after an agitated mob abused and attempted to assault an army doctor.The AFMC authorities have conveyed to the board their trainee doctors would not be available for service until it enhanced the hospital’s security coverage. Their expert doctors would be available, though.On Wednesday morning, a suspected dengue patient, Aasiya Sayyed (18), was admitted to the hospital. She passed away in the evening. The PCB sources said a few angry relatives and acquaintances of the girl’s family abused and attempted to assault an army doctor present at the hospital.The CEO of PCB, D N Yadav, told TOI, “We have ordered for an internal inquiry to investigate the matter. The reason for the girl’s death is yet to be ascertained. The viscera has been preserved. We have come to know that nobody from the deceased’s direct family was involved in the incident.”The hospital’s OPD handles around 600 patients daily. In the past, hospital, would mainly rely on the team of expert doctors. They would attend to the patients for a limited period on designated days.“We will soon meet the AFMC authorities to deliberate the issue in detail. If the college doesn’t extend its support, it will be a mammoth task for the board to run the hospital smoothly,” Yadav said.The hospital’s resident medical officer ( RMO ), V D Gaikwad , told TOI, “We had a meeting with the AFMC authorities on Friday where they told us the trainee postgraduate doctors would not be available until the PCB provided adequate security to the hospital but their expert doctors would attend to patients.”Gaikwad claimed the board was in the process to hire security personnel once its general body meeting passed a proposal in this regard.The vice-president of PCB, Priyanka Shirigi , said, “Ideally it was the responsibility of the hospital’s RMO to control the mob, but he was not present the day the incident occurred. The board will soon seek a detailed explanation from the RMO.”

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