After a degree in medicine, AIIMS doctors will now learn taekwondo
Last month, doctors from several hospitals in Delhi had gone for strike over assault on their colleagues by relatives of patients.
In the wake of rising incidents of attack on doctors, the residential doctors of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences will now undergo a self-defence training in taekwondo, said reports.
We'll start training from 15 May, under professionals with black belt in taekwondo: Dr.Vijay Kumar, Pres Resident Doctors' Association AIIMS pic.twitter.com/zK00U2ZQsM
— ANI (@ANI_news) May 3, 2017
The junior doctors at AIIMS went on a strike earlier this year over the increasing number of assaults on the doctors.
The doctors had then demanded increased security arrangements for them.
In April, services in about 10 government hospitals in Delhi were hit as the doctors joined their counterparts in West Delhi's Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital, who are on a strike following alleged assaults on them.
On March 23, the Bombay high court directed the government to provide security for the government-run hospitals' doctors to go to work without fear. Around 4,000 doctors held the strike for more than a week after a doctor was thrashed by the relatives of a patient in early March.
Even
in
2014,
the
AIIMS
doctors
had
gone
on
a
strike
demanding
adequate
security
following
an
attack
by
a
patient's
relatives
on
three
senior
resident
doctors.
The
doctors
had
then
gone
on
an
indefinite
strike
after
alleging
that
the
kin
of
a
patient
admitted
in
Surgical
Emergency
brandished
guns
and
beat
up
the
three
doctors
who
were
on
duty.
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