AP: Patient assaults doctor, slams head on bed
The attacker grabbed the doctor by her hair and then banged her head on the steel frame of the hospital bed
By : DC Web Desk
Update: 2024-08-27 11:32 GMT
Tirupati: A patient attacked a junior doctor at Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) in Tirupati. The incident was captured on a CCTV camera in the hospital.
It is seen in the CCTV footage that the attacker grabs the doctor by her hair and then bangs her on the steel frame of the hospital bed.
It is then seen that the doctors in the ward immediately come to her rescue and the attacker gets overpowered and taken away.
The intern wrote a letter to SVIMS director cum vice-chancellor Dr RV Kumar about the incident when she was on duty in the Emergency Medicine Department on Saturday.
"...I was unexpectedly attacked by a patient, Bangaru Raju, who approached me from behind, pulled my hair, and began forcibly banging my head against the steel rod of a cot," she wrote, adding that no security personnel were present at the site to help her.
She said the incident raises concerns about the safety at workplaces.
"If the patient had been armed with a sharp weapon, the situation could have escalated with severe consequences," she wrote while demanding security measures to ensure the safety of the staff.
After the incident took place, doctors of the hospital staged a protest and demanded safety at the workplace.