With no visible action taken by the law enforcing agencies till date over the October 27, 2016 incident, wherein some doctors and staffs on duty were allegedly abused and threatened by a group of youth, the doctors and staffs of district hospital Mon on Monday started their phase-I agitation by wearing black badge.
Narrating the incident, the doctors said that on October 27 night, a group of youth had brought one injured youth with deep cut wound on his forearm to the hospital. As soon as they entered the hospital premises, the doctors said the youths started abusing and even threatened the doctor, nurse and staffs on duty at the emergency room without any rhyme or reason. Despite such harassment, the hospital staff said, sensing the severity of the wound, they decided to shift the injured patient to the operation theatre (OT). Even in the operation theatre, the doctors lamented they were not spared.
Even after repeated appeals not to enter the OT, the youths forcefully kicked open the door and entered the OT with their shoes on and started to abuse and threatened the doctors and nurses. The youths also ransacked the emergency room. It was learnt that after a meeting on October 30, 2016, the doctors and staffs of the district hospital Mon had submitted a representation to the deputy commissioner Mon.
Meanwhile, according to source, the doctors and staffs were likely to continue with their protest and may even go to the extent of taking mass casual leave.
It may be mentioned that district hospital Mon is the only hospital in the entire district and such incidents had happened in the past as well.
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