Patient, sister booked for verbally abusing, assaulting female doctor at Sion hospital

A 30-year-old patient and his sister were booked for verbally abusing and assaulting a woman doctor at Sion Hospital. An FIR was registered by Sion police.

Mumbai: A 30-year-old patient and his sister were booked on Sunday for allegedly verbally abusing and assaulting a woman doctor at Sion Hospital on Sunday. The Sion police have registered an FIR against the sister, Shweta and the patient, Prasad Devendra, who had visited the hospital to get his face injury treated, which appeared to have come from an incident of assault, said a police officer.

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As per the procedure, the doctor, a first-year student of master’s in surgery (MS), on ENT department duty was examining the wound at around 3.45am. The doctor removed cotton from the wound, which made the patient scream due to the pain. This is when he started verbally abusing her. The patient’s sister standing nearby, instead of consoling the patient, started abusing and arguing with the woman doctor, said the police officer.

The argument turned into a physical altercation and nurses and other hospital staff members intervened, but by then the doctor had sustained injuries and abrasions on her hands. “By the time security was called, the patient and the relatives had fled. Such incidents are very frequent and mostly go unreported, but we could not let this one slide, especially after what happened in Kolkata,” said Dr Akshya More, general secretary of Sion-Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) and BMC-MARD.

“It was an act of miscommunication,” said Dr Mohan Joshi, Dean of Sion Hospital. “Both sides had a miscommunication and the incident took place. Communication should be gentle on both sides. The FIR has been filed and further investigation is on.

(with agency inputs )