Around 250 doctors of state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) here today boycotted work and held a protest against the attack on their three colleagues, allegedly by those accompanying a woman patient who died last night.
The protesting house surgeons and junior doctors said they were boycotting elective duty in protest against the incident and also against the "unsafe" working conditions at the hospital even as the hospital administration constituted a commission to probe the incident.
The protesters held a demonstration and raised slogans like 'We want justice'.
A junior doctor said around 30 people attending a 70-year-old woman, undergoing treatment in the ICU of the hospital, assaulted two women house surgeons and a post-graduate doctor following the death of the woman.
"Protesting against last night's attack, the house surgeons and junior doctors of OGH abstained from elective duties. However, the medial services were not hit," OGH Superintendent GVS Murthy told PTI.
He said the elderly woman was undergoing treatment at the hospital for the past five days. "The woman was suffering from high blood pressure. She had suffered a stroke," he added.
Murthy, who held a meeting with the doctors and police officials, said he assured them that Special Protection Force (SPF) personnel would be deployed in all teaching hospitals as being demanded by the doctors.
Murthy said he had asked the doctors to withdraw their protest and resume working.
He said members of the public should not take law into their hands.
"We have lodged a complaint with police who have registered a case in this matter," Murthy said.
However, the junior doctors said such attacks were taken place in the past as well and are happening frequently.
"We want proper security and installation of CCTVs. Security has to be beefed up by deploying SPF and also private security personnel," they said.
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