NHRC demands report from Assam government in doctor assault case
The NHRC on Friday demanded an action taken report in the doctor assault incident from the Assam government.
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UPDATED: June 4, 2021 21:24 IST
n a viral video of the incident, relatives of the deceased patient can be seen attacking and kicking the doctor identified as one Dr Seuj Kumar Senapati. (Screengrab of the video)
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India, has called for an action taken report from the Assam chief secretary, the director-general of police and Assam government after taking cognizance of a complaint about the brutal assault on a doctor by the relatives of a Covid patient at Udali Model Hospital in Hojai district on June 1. NHRC has demanded a report within 4 weeks.
The accused at a police station in Hojai on Wednesday
GUWAHATI: A lower court in Assam s Hojai district, about 170 km from Guwahati, on Wednesday sent seven of the 24 accused arrested in connection with assaulting an on-duty doctor to three-day police custody and 14 to judicial custody. The remaining three, who claimed to be minors, have been sent to a juvenile home.
On Tuesday afternoon, a mob assaulted doctor Seuj Kumar Senapati and other staff of the Udali Covid care centre (CCC) and damaged the healthcare facility following the death of a Covid-19 patient identified as Giyasuddin. The attackers alleged negligence by the doctor and his medical team for the fatality.
UPDATED: June 2, 2021 17:14 IST
The junior doctors accompanied by senior doctors and frontline health workers staged protests by wearing black badges in the government-run hospitals in Assam. (Image: Screengrab of the viral video of the incident)
Doctors in Assam on Wednesday boycotted the Outpatient Department (OPD) services in protest against the brutal attack on a junior doctor at a Covid-19 care centre in Hojai district on Tuesday.
The junior doctors accompanied by senior doctors and frontline health workers staged protests by wearing black badges in the government-run hospitals of Guwahati, Hojai, Biswanath, Jorhat, Tezpur, Nagaon and many other places in the state.
Dr Seuj Kumar Senapati was brutally beaten up by a group of people following the death of a Covid patient at the Odali Model Hospital in Hojai district of Central Assam.