A knife attack on a doctor in the southern Indian city of Chennai has raised fresh concerns about the safety of medical professionals in the country.
Police say that Balaji Jaganathan, an oncologist at a government hospital, was stabbed several times by a man who was reportedly unsatisfied with his mother’s treatment.
The doctor’s condition is reported to be stable and the attacker has been sent to police custody.
More than 75% of doctors in India have faced at least some form of violence and 68.33% of such attacks are committed by the patients’ attendees, a report by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) shows.
A mentally-challenged person attacked a psychiatrist at Chennai’s Government Stanley Hospital on Wednesday when the doctor was visiting patients in the outpatient ward. The attack came just hours after a doctor was brutally stabbed at another hospital …
A knife attack on a doctor in the southern Indian city of Chennai has raised fresh concerns about the safety of medical professionals in the country.
Police say that Balaji Jaganathan, an oncologist at a government hospital, was stabbed several times by a man who was reportedly unsatisfied with his mother’s treatment.
The doctor’s condition is reported to be stable and the attacker has been sent to police custody.
More than 75% of doctors in India have faced at least some form of violence and 68.33% of such attacks are committed by the patients’ attendees, a report by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) shows.
