Two resident doctors, including a woman, were allegedly beaten up by a patient’s relatives at the State-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai on the morning of Saturday, 19 May, the police said.
While police registered a case against five persons and arrested four of them, the incident prompted the resident doctors at the hospital to go on a day-long strike.
The incident took place in the morning when Zaida Sanaullah Sheikh (45), a resident of Mumbra, who was being treated for a gall bladder ailment, died.
Her family members alleged that it was due to negligence on the doctors’ part, and beat up Dr Atish Parikh and a woman doctor who were on duty, a police official said.
They also allegedly ransacked the ward. CCTV footage of the incident went viral on social media.
