Kozhikode: Two held for attack on hospital RMO

Kozhikode: Two persons - Thiruparambath Gopalakrishnan (55) and Parambath Suresh (45) – were arrested in connection with the attack against Asha hospital in Vadakara on April 23. The alleged attack took place after Bhavya (18) of Madapally fell unconscious after taking an injection advised by hospital RMO Dr Anuraj for migraine.

According to Vadakara police, irked relatives and neighbours of Bhavya questioned the doctor. The doctor did not know Malayalam, while the relatives did not understand what the doctor said. They took Bhavya to Kozhikode medical college hospital and asked the RMO to accompany them in the ambulance. “That was being wrongly propagated as the doctor being forcibly taken out.

According to the relatives of the patients, the doctor had given an overdose of the injection to the girl who has weak health,” said Vadakara police sub-inspector Jayan J.E.

Protesting over the issue of the doctor being forcibly taken in an ambulance, close to 6000 doctors in the district had abstained from duty on Wednesday as per the call of the IMA.

Police said that the doctor had destroyed the case sheet of Bhavya. Both the arrested persons are neighbours of Bhavya. Five others were also charged in the case. Meanwhile, an action committee formed in Madapally had called for action against the RMO for medical negligence. They said that Bhavya did not speak after taking the injection and was admitted to Pariyaram hospital in Kannur.

“The IMA has been conducting a false campaign that the doctor was abducted. Action should be taken against the RMO who committed grave medical negligence,” said Action committee chairman K. Kalajith. He added that the doctor was taken in the ambulance in the presence of seven policemen who reached the hospital after the scuffle. “If he was forcibly taken, the ambulance should be seized and the driver should be arrested,” he said. The committee is planning to take  a march to the police station and to approach court.