2023-05-24 16:37:16
Thiruvananthapuram∙ Patient attacked doctors at Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital. Sudheer (45), a native of Balaramapuram, was attacked. The medical college police arrested him and subjected him to medical examination. The incident took place around 7.45 pm on Tuesday. The police registered a case on the complaint of the doctors. This is the first case after the notification of Hospital Protection Ordinance.
Santosh and Siva Jyoti, senior residents of the neurosurgery department, were attacked. The accused is a man who came for treatment with back pain due to disc problem. Tests were being conducted for his surgery. He robbed the doctors who were on night duty. Doctors are also said to have been insulted. Santhosh was stabbed in the neck. There was an attempt to assault Shiva Jyoti who came to stop this. He was then detained by the hospital staff and others.
The Kerala Health Care Workers and Health Care Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property) Amendment Ordinance, 2012 was signed into law by the Governor yesterday. Anyone who commits, attempts to commit, incites or incites violence against health workers shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not less than 6 months to 5 years and a fine of not less than 50,000 rupees and not less than 2 lakh rupees. Up to three months imprisonment for verbal insult. or shall be liable to a fine of Rs.10000 or to both imprisonment and fine. It is also an offense to use words intended to be abusive or insulting.
If the health worker is subjected to grievous bodily harm, the punishment will be imprisonment for not less than one year and not less than 7 years and fine not less than one lakh rupees and not less than 5 lakh rupees. It was decided to amend the law and issue the ordinance following the incident where Dr. Vandana Das was killed in an attack by a patient in the Kottarakkara taluk hospital.
English Summary: Patient Attacked Doctors at Thiruvananthapuram Medical College
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